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Crowberry

Crowberry \Crow`ber`ry\ (kr?"b?r`r?), n. (Bot.) A heathlike plant of the genus Empetrum, and its fruit, a black, scarcely edible berry; -- also called crakeberry.

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crowberry

n. 1 (taxlink Empetrum genus noshow=1); a small genus of dwarf evergreen shrubs that bear edible fruit. 2 (taxlink Empetrum nigrum species noshow=1); a species of crowberry. 3 A fruit of this plant.

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crowberry

n. a low evergreen shrub with small purple flowers and black berrylike fruit

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Usage examples of "crowberry".

After eating, the cups were filled with a light but unfermented wine made of crowberries, and with that Biarki, to his disgust, was obliged to make do.

Frost and drought-resistant tufted grasses, herbs with dense root systems, miniature woody shrubs of sagebrush and wormwood mingled with white arctic bell heather, miniature rhododendron, and pink crowberry flowers dominating the dainty purple blooms of alpine heath.