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HIGH-BUSH BLUEBERRY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does high-bush blueberry mean?
• HIGH-BUSH BLUEBERRY (noun)
The noun HIGH-BUSH BLUEBERRY has 1 sense:
1. high-growing deciduous shrub of eastern North America bearing edible blueish to blackish berries with a distinct bloom; source of most cultivated blueberries
Familiarity information: HIGH-BUSH BLUEBERRY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
High-growing deciduous shrub of eastern North America bearing edible blueish to blackish berries with a distinct bloom; source of most cultivated blueberries
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
high-bush blueberry; swamp blueberry; tall bilberry; Vaccinium corymbosum
Hypernyms ("high-bush blueberry" is a kind of...):
blueberry; blueberry bush (any of numerous shrubs of the genus Vaccinium bearing blueberries)
Meronyms (parts of "high-bush blueberry"):
blueberry (sweet edible dark-blue berries of either low-growing or high-growing blueberry plants)
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