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Erect European blueberry having solitary flowers and blue-black berries
Answer for the clue "Erect European blueberry having solitary flowers and blue-black berries ", 12 letters:
whortleberry
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Word definitions for whortleberry in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Whortleberry \Whor"tle*ber`ry\, n. [AS. wyrtil a small shrub (dim. of wyrt wort) + E. berry. See Wort , and cf. Huckleberry , Hurtleberry .] (Bot.) In England, the fruit of Vaccinium Myrtillus ; also, the plant itself. See Bilberry , 1. The fruit of several ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s, southwestern England variant of hurtleberry (see huckleberry ).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. erect European blueberry having solitary flowers and blue-black berries [syn: bilberry , whinberry , blaeberry , Viccinium myrtillus ] blue-black berries similar to American blueberries [syn: bilberry , European blueberry ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Any of several shrubs belonging to the genus ''Vaccinium''. 2 A berry of one of these shrubs.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
'''Whortleberry '''may refer to the berries of several plants of genus Vaccinium : Vaccinium myrtillus , bilberry, or blue whortleberry Vaccinium vitis-idaea , lingonberry or red whortleberry Vaccinium uliginosum , bog whortleberry/bilberry
Usage examples of whortleberry.
And old Lady Whortleberry, who never misses a first night, would scream.
And after the audience had heard the Whortleberry scream the thing would be fairly launched.
The whortleberry leaves, that were green as the myrtle when the wood-sorrel was in bloom, have faded somewhat now that their berries are ripening.
In a cottage some way up the hill we ate clotted cream and whortleberry jam.
For supper, seal-steak, with whortleberry jam, cheese, bread, butter, and coffee.
Long rows of cases stood here, full of whortleberry jam, cranberries, syrup, cream, sugar, and pickles.
Waiting a moment to get her breath, she made a hasty bouquet of some blue campanulas and sprigs of whortleberry and then sauntered down the path, a little flushed, a little untidy about the hair and wet about the shoes, but on the whole a creditable specimen of early-rising vigorous maidenhood.
Humblebee and whortleberry for people that say Woos-ses-ter and Nor-wich.
Or, perhaps, it was the wild cat crouching along a branch with its wicked yellow eyes fixed upon the squirrels which played at the farther end, or else with a scuttle and rush the Canadian porcupine would thrust its way among the yellow blossoms of the resin weed and the tangle of the whortleberry bushes.
There would be chicken and fresh peas and new potatoes and a great bowl of Cornish cream to be eaten with whortleberry jam.
But there was no whortleberry jam and only a small bowl of cream to go with the gooseberry tart.
I treated the wound with whortleberry and sallow bark, but it is deep and I am afraid.
Where the trees were pines and the ground a carpet of needles and young whortleberries the going was good, but when whins intervened or burnt heather or the matted stumps of fallen oaks, and the moon was shut out by thick undergrowth, it was necessary to walk as delicately as Agag.
At times they helped gather whortleberries as food for the others, but they looked for Indians or game, intending to shoot in either case.
The stronger of them helped the men to gather more whortleberries, as it was easy to see that the food they had with them would never last until they reached Fort Penn, should they ever reach it.