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VACCINIUM CORYMBOSUM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Vaccinium corymbosum mean?
• VACCINIUM CORYMBOSUM (noun)
The noun VACCINIUM CORYMBOSUM 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: VACCINIUM CORYMBOSUM 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 ("Vaccinium corymbosum" is a kind of...):
blueberry; blueberry bush (any of numerous shrubs of the genus Vaccinium bearing blueberries)
Meronyms (parts of "Vaccinium corymbosum"):
blueberry (sweet edible dark-blue berries of either low-growing or high-growing blueberry plants)
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