LINGBERRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lingberry mean? 

• LINGBERRY (noun)
  The noun LINGBERRY has 1 sense:

1. low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries

  Familiarity information: LINGBERRY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LINGBERRY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

cowberry; foxberry; lingberry; lingenberry; lingonberry; mountain cranberry; Vaccinium vitis-idaea

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

cranberry (any of numerous shrubs of genus Vaccinium bearing cranberries)

Meronyms (parts of "lingberry"):

cowberry; lingonberry; lowbush cranberry; mountain cranberry (tart red berries similar to American cranberries but smaller)