bilberry

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  1. noun See blueberry.

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  • Combat urinary tract infections with a combination of cranberry, bilberry, and blueberry time-released formula. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • There are also useful herbal remedies to consider such as bilberry, eyebright and lycium.
  • Superfruit extract-based food supplements such as bilberry, cranberry, acerola and bilberry had become the world's most expensive fruit. —  NutraIngredients RSS
  • However, bilberry, cranberry, black currant, green tea, black tea, and other plants also contain these flavonoids. —  Chinalyst - China blogs in English
  • Lutein, bilberry, L-carnosine, coenzyme Q10, resveratrol, grape seed and green tea extracts are all potent antioxidants. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
 

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  1. bil-, probably of Scandinavian origin; see bhel-2 in Indo-European roots + berry.

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  1. Formerly also spelled bill-berry and bull-berry. The last form, if not simulated, is prob. right, from bull + berry. Another species, the red whortleberry, is named cowberry, and the New Latin name of the genus, Vaccinium, means ‘cowberry.’ The word bull enters into the names of several other plants, as bullweed, bullwort, bulrush. Cf. hartberry, another name for bilberry. But the relation of the equivalent Danish böllebær, also simply bölle, whortleberry, to Danish böll, a castrated bull (cf. Icelandic boli = Norwegian bol = English bull), is not clear. The usual Danish term for bull is tyr = Swedish tjur = Icelandic stjōrr = English steer. The name blaeberry is of different origin: see blaeberry.
 

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/ˈbɪlbɛri/
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