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Bearberry

noun
1.
Shrubby tree of the Pacific coast of the United States; yields cascara sagrada.  Synonyms: bearwood, cascara buckthorn, chittamwood, chittimwood, Rhamnus purshianus.
2.
Deciduous shrub of southeastern and central United States.  Synonyms: Ilex decidua, possum haw, winterberry.
3.
Chiefly evergreen subshrubs of northern to Arctic areas.



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"Bearberry" Quotes from Famous Books



... species of these limestones are alpine plants, usually found at high elevations on mountains, which here form sheets of verdure down to the very edge of the sea. The Mountain Dryas (D. octopetala), the Bearberry (Arctostaphylos Uva-ursi), the lovely Spring Gentian (G. verna), and the Blue Moor-grass (Sesleria caerulea) are good examples, all of them growing in great abundance from the hill-tops down to the shore. It is this strange mingling of plants from the far south, from the far north, and ...
— The Sunny Side of Ireland - How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway • John O'Mahony and R. Lloyd Praeger



Words linked to "Bearberry" :   cascara sagrada, genus Arctostaphylos, buckthorn, creashak, sandberry, bear's grape, winterberry, hog cranberry, holly, bush, chittem bark, shrub, Arctostaphylos uva-ursi, alpine bearberry, chittam bark, wild cranberry, cascara, common bearberry, mountain box, black bearberry, mealberry, Arctostaphylos alpina, Arctostaphylos, sand berry



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