Crossword clues for bilberry
bilberry
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bilberry \Bil"ber*ry\, n.; pl. Bilberries. [Cf. Dan. b["o]lleb[ae]r bilberry, where b["o]lle is perh. akin to E. ball.]
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(Bot.) The European whortleberry ( Vaccinium myrtillus); also, its edible bluish black fruit.
There pinch the maids as blue as bilberry.
--Shak. (Bot.) Any similar plant or its fruit; esp., in America, the species Vaccinium myrtilloides, Vaccinium c[ae]spitosum and Vaccinium uliginosum.
Wiktionary
n. 1 ''Vaccinium myrtillus'', the wild European blueberry of the cowberry family. 2 The shrub of the above-mentioned plant.
WordNet
n. erect European blueberry having solitary flowers and blue-black berries [syn: whortleberry, whinberry, blaeberry, Viccinium myrtillus]
erect blueberry of western United States having solitary flowers and somewhat sour berries [syn: thin-leaved bilberry, mountain blue berry, Viccinium membranaceum]
blue-black berries similar to American blueberries [syn: whortleberry, European blueberry]
Wikipedia
Bilberries are any of several primarily Eurasian species of low-growing shrubs in the genus Vaccinium (family Ericaceae), bearing edible, nearly black berries. The species most often referred to is Vaccinium myrtillus L., but there are several other closely related species. Bilberries are distinct from blueberries but closely related to them.
A bilberry is a flowering plant and its fruit.
Bilberry may also refer to:
- Bilberry, Cornwall, United Kingdom
Usage examples of "bilberry".
The faint buzzing of a bee, the scurry of rabbits rustling through the bilberry and bracken, the occasional bleat of a stray sheep, the trilling of the birds, and that ever-present rush of water dropping over the edge of Dern Ghyll close by.
They drank kvass made of red bilberries, juniper-berries, or of bread-- Antonina Ivanovna always carried a stock of different kinds of kvass.
Now not even tree stumps were visible in this place, for the forests had been replaced in the shorn uplands by a dense tangle of bracken and bramble and bilberry or by blackened mats of burned roots, producing a forlorn-looking landscape that was of little use to man or beast.
Well, I thought, Nimfodora Semyonovna will regale me now with bilberry water and other cooling drinks--and I had already taken hold of the doorhandle when all at once there was the tramping of feet and shrieking, and shouting of boys from round the corner of a hut in the courtyard.
She also brought over little wooden bowls, one full of honey, the other of a thick mess of stewed fruit: bilberries, raspberries and blackberries, gathered from the moors.
The clear, clean air sharpened every detail: the opposite slopes of the valley bright with bronze bracken, purple heather and dark bilberries.
By night, what with the rocks and the tussocks, the harsh tangle of bilberries and heather underfoot, and the river to cross, it would take much longer.
One of hers was unlaced and slipped about on her foot in an irritating way that she suspected would soon give her blisters, but the other men were all barefoot, and she could hear them groaning and hissing in the darkness as their toes and ankles were bashed on rocks, as the harsh, strong growth of bilberries scratched them, as the tough bracken stems cut like razors.
The children wandered over the island and looked for bilberries, which were fruiting there in great numbers.
It was a way of quenching their thirst, to pick the small, juicy bilberries.
There are lots of bilberries there we could pick--they are lovely and sweet now.
Blueberries and bilberries spread out as thick car pets, only four inches high.
Can you--' she sniffed, and sniffed at the bottle--'can you smell bilberries?
I saw ripe bilberries gleaming here and there, like jet beads in the heath: I gathered a handful and ate them with the bread.
I saw ripe bilberries gleaming here and there, like jet beads in the heath.