crow|ber|ry

crow|ber|ry
crow|ber|ry «KROH BEHR ee», noun, plural -ries.
1. a tasteless black berry, the fruit of a small, evergreen, heathlike shrub of northern Europe and America.
2. the shrub itself; heathberry: »

Flying northward in an airplane, you see occasional green patches where crowberry grows in the tundra (Scientific American).

3. the American or large cranberry.

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