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LINGONBERRY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tart red berries similar to American cranberries but smaller
Synonyms:
cowberry; lingonberry; lowbush cranberry; mountain cranberry
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("lingonberry" is a kind of...):
berry (any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits; used as desserts or in making jams and jellies and preserves)
Holonyms ("lingonberry" is a part of...):
cowberry; foxberry; lingberry; lingenberry; lingonberry; mountain cranberry; Vaccinium vitis-idaea (low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries
Synonyms:
cowberry; foxberry; lingberry; lingenberry; lingonberry; mountain cranberry; Vaccinium vitis-idaea
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("lingonberry" is a kind of...):
cranberry (any of numerous shrubs of genus Vaccinium bearing cranberries)
Meronyms (parts of "lingonberry"):
cowberry; lingonberry; lowbush cranberry; mountain cranberry (tart red berries similar to American cranberries but smaller)
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