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ALPINE BEARBERRY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does alpine bearberry mean?
• ALPINE BEARBERRY (noun)
The noun ALPINE BEARBERRY has 1 sense:
1. deciduous creeping shrub bright red in autumn having black or blue-black berries; alpine and circumpolar
Familiarity information: ALPINE BEARBERRY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Deciduous creeping shrub bright red in autumn having black or blue-black berries; alpine and circumpolar
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
alpine bearberry; Arctostaphylos alpina; black bearberry
Hypernyms ("alpine bearberry" is a kind of...):
bearberry (chiefly evergreen subshrubs of northern to Arctic areas)
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