Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A creeping perennial herb (Rubus chamaemorus) in the rose family, native to northern regions of North America and Eurasia and having white flowers and edible yellowish fruit.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A species of dwarf raspberry, Rubus Chamæmorus, with a creeping root-stock and simple stem, from 4 to 8 inches high. It is found in arctic and subarctic regions of the northern hemisphere, on the mountains of Great Britain and central Europe, and in some localities in Canada and New England. The flowers are large and white, and the berries, which are of a very agreeable taste, are orange-yellow in color, and consist of a few large drupes. Also called
knotberry and mountain bramble.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Bot.) A species of raspberry (Rubus Chamæmerous) growing in the northern regions, and bearing edible, amber-colored fruit.
WordNet 3.0
- n. creeping raspberry of north temperate regions with yellow or orange berries
Examples
“A cloudberry is a wild raspberry with large orange fruit.”
“Other berries such as cloudberry and lingonberry ( '' V. vitis-idaea '') are said to have declined in the last 30 years [18].”
Phenotypic responses of arctic species to changes in climate and ultraviolet-B radiation
“Which is fine, because it's not like there were things I wanted to do this week other than curling up on the sofa and trying to get and keep something in my system that has more substance in it than cloudberry tisane.”
“It would be a close call between brownie cheesecake and cloudberry cheesecake … I think I have to go for cloudberry though because I can only make it when I am lucky enough to have some nice relative send me some jam …”
“Ms. Rowe also imports cloudberry preserves, which is the berry's most common format in Scandinavia.”
The Wall Street Journal: Brown Cheese And Birch: Nordic Foods' Appeal Grows
“The Swedish food section in IKEA stores sell cloudberry jam, which Swedes often serve with hot waffles.”
The Wall Street Journal: Brown Cheese And Birch: Nordic Foods' Appeal Grows
“In Poulsbo, Wash., MorMor Bistro & Bar tops cheesecake with cloudberry preserves infused with Riesling wine and orange zest.”
The Wall Street Journal: Brown Cheese And Birch: Nordic Foods' Appeal Grows
“Something of the gold in the cloudberry champagne swirled within the liquid of her voice and warmed everyone who listened: it was faint, but you could see it if you realized what to look for.”
“The Cloudberry Dream, shown at left, is a sweet crepe prepared with cloudberry cream.”
“Bjørn had cloudberry gelato – he said it was the nommiest ever… and licorice – not so enthusiastic about that wun – it was just ok…”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cloudberry’.
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Berry Me Deep In Love
Different kinds of berries. In particular it's a list of those with -berry in the name, regardless of whether they are true berries or not. According to Schlockipedia, the botanical class of berrie...
cloudberry, juneberry, whortleberry, goldenberry, apple serviceberry, allegheny shadberry, loganberry, lingonberry, huckleberry, juniper berry, blackberry, mulberry and 74 more...
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beyond pale
Words meaning or invoking the different aspects of pale.
Not just colour, but also the ideas of impermanence, illness, weakness. (Just not the two noun forms – a thin strip of metal or woo...pale, pallid, wan, light, misty, ethereal, cream, dim, white, thin, waning, colourless and 62 more...
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ambrosia, inamorata, gossamer, lily-white, hummingbird, roucoulement, poppy, daisy, calypso, lunula, lamb, dove and 1526 more...
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Learned (or Encountered) in Reading
I have a list for words learned from Newsweek; here's where I keep all the stuff from other shit I read.
Except when I'm looking stuff up and find new words that way. Those go on their...cellie, laminectomy, mridangam, terroir, hypospadias, crus, corpora cavernosa, crura, uretheral meatus, bartholin's gland, coloquintida, colopexy and 921 more...
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Hedgepiglet
Words for things both tangible and nonanthropic
rorqual, vellus, wrasse, rainbow bee-eater, tinkershire, lemonquat, boomslang, tufted vetch, cubeb, nipplefruit, madapple, wad and 447 more...
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fruit
Fruits I know and love.. or am thinking about.
lemon, apple, cherry, grape, kiwi, strawberry, mango, tomato, cloudberry, hurma, pineapple, peach and 6 more...
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I like: C
cabal, cadmium, caligula, calliope, callow, camel, camera obscura, canticle, carmina burana, carpe diem, cartouche, casablanca and 68 more...
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bunch of fruits
I like fruit. And I like the names of fruits – well, of these fruits at least.
persimmon, kaki, pomegranate, apple, pear, peach, fig, date, grapefruit, orange, banana, japanese persimmon and 39 more...
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Names and kinds of fruit
A list made in honor of my son, who likes to eat it. A lot. Today he's had blueberries, apples, bananas, and watermelon, and that was just in his first two hours awake. Limited to fruit I could thi...
apple, banana, watermelon, orange, grape, blueberry, papaya, mango, nectarine, peach, grapefruit, pomelo and 56 more...
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pekkok's Words
zeusism, pedobourgeois, effluvium, cloudberry, farfaller, valeric
Tweets
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chained_bear "'I taught him about crowberries and cloudberries. You can eat this one raw or in a salad,' she says, pointing to a photograph of brook saxifrage. 'And you can eat the roots of these two—wild celery and what the book calls Parry's wallflower.'"
—James Campbell, The Final Frontiersman (New York and London: Atria Books, 2004), 244 Sep 17, 2008