BEARBERRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bearberry mean? 

• BEARBERRY (noun)
  The noun BEARBERRY has 3 senses:

1. shrubby tree of the Pacific coast of the United States; yields cascara sagrada

2. deciduous shrub of southeastern and central United States

3. chiefly evergreen subshrubs of northern to Arctic areas

  Familiarity information: BEARBERRY used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BEARBERRY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Shrubby tree of the Pacific coast of the United States; yields cascara sagrada

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

bearberry; bearwood; cascara buckthorn; chittamwood; chittimwood; Rhamnus purshianus

Hypernyms ("bearberry" is a kind of...):

buckthorn (a shrub or shrubby tree of the genus Rhamnus; fruits are source of yellow dyes or pigments)

Meronyms (parts of "bearberry"):

cascara; cascara sagrada; chittam bark; chittem bark (dried bark of the cascara buckthorn used as a laxative)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Deciduous shrub of southeastern and central United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

bearberry; Ilex decidua; possum haw; winterberry

Hypernyms ("bearberry" is a kind of...):

holly (any tree or shrub of the genus Ilex having red berries and shiny evergreen leaves with prickly edges)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Chiefly evergreen subshrubs of northern to Arctic areas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("bearberry" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bearberry"):

Arctostaphylos uva-ursi; bear's grape; common bearberry; creashak; hog cranberry; mealberry; mountain box; red bearberry; sand berry; sandberry; wild cranberry (evergreen mat-forming shrub of North America and northern Eurasia having small white flowers and red berries; leaves turn red in autumn)

alpine bearberry; Arctostaphylos alpina; black bearberry (deciduous creeping shrub bright red in autumn having black or blue-black berries; alpine and circumpolar)

Holonyms ("bearberry" is a member of...):

Arctostaphylos; genus Arctostaphylos (bearberry; manzanita)