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Whinberry

Whinberry \Whin"ber*ry\, n. (Bot.) The English bilberry; -- so called because it grows on moors among the whins, or furze.
--Dr. Prior.

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whinberry

n. The bilberry.

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whinberry

n. erect European blueberry having solitary flowers and blue-black berries [syn: bilberry, whortleberry, blaeberry, Viccinium myrtillus]

Usage examples of "whinberry".

I used to sit at this point on the warm sunlit turf which marked the track of the Roman Road, while the two children raced about hunting for the whinberries that grew here and there on the banks.

Ma Lomas made wine from elderflowers, elderberries, nettles, dandelions, birch sap, rhubarb, gooseberries and whinberries.