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BLUEBERRY BUSH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of numerous shrubs of the genus Vaccinium bearing blueberries
Synonyms:
blueberry; blueberry bush
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("blueberry bush" 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 "blueberry bush"):
huckleberry (any of various dark-fruited as distinguished from blue-fruited blueberries)
farkleberry; sparkleberry; Vaccinium arboreum (shrub or small tree of eastern United States having black inedible berries)
low-bush blueberry; low blueberry; Vaccinium angustifolium; Vaccinium pennsylvanicum (low-growing deciduous shrub of northeastern North America having flowers in compact racemes and bearing sweet dark blue berries)
rabbit-eye blueberry; rabbiteye; rabbiteye blueberry; Vaccinium ashei (shrub of southeastern United States grown commercially especially for canning industry)
dwarf bilberry; dwarf blueberry; Vaccinium caespitosum (low-growing tufted deciduous shrub of northern and alpine North America having pink to coral-red flowers followed by sweet blue berries)
high-bush blueberry; swamp blueberry; tall bilberry; Vaccinium corymbosum (high-growing deciduous shrub of eastern North America bearing edible blueish to blackish berries with a distinct bloom; source of most cultivated blueberries)
evergreen blueberry; Vaccinium myrsinites (shrub of the eastern United States having shining evergreen leaves and bluish-black fruit)
evergreen huckleberry; Vaccinium ovatum (stiff bushy evergreen shrub of western North America having sour black berries and glossy green foliage used in floral arrangements)
bilberry; mountain blue berry; thin-leaved bilberry; Viccinium membranaceum (erect blueberry of western United States having solitary flowers and somewhat sour berries)
bilberry; blaeberry; Viccinium myrtillus; whinberry; whortleberry (erect European blueberry having solitary flowers and blue-black berries)
bog bilberry; bog whortleberry; moor berry; Vaccinium uliginosum alpinum (an evergreen shrub with leathery leaves)
dryland berry; dryland blueberry; Vaccinium pallidum (low deciduous shrub of the eastern United States bearing dark blue sweet berries)
grouse-berry; grouse whortleberry; grouseberry; Vaccinium scoparium (shrub of northwestern North America bearing red berries)
deerberry; squaw huckleberry; Vaccinium stamineum (small branching blueberry common in marshy areas of the eastern United States having greenish or yellowish unpalatable berries reputedly eaten by deer)
Holonyms ("blueberry bush" is a member of...):
genus Vaccinium; Vaccinium (evergreen or deciduous berry-bearing shrubs of northern hemisphere: cranberries; blueberries)
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