cowberry

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Smoked deer ham with cowberry and cheese cream (background), Peccary fillet salad with lettuce and nuts (foreground - there wasn't much peccary).

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  1. noun A low creeping evergreen shrub (Vaccinium vitis-idaea), native to northern parts of North America and Eurasia and having drooping clusters of small white or pinkish flowers.
  2. noun The edible red berry of this plant, used to make sauces, jams, and preserves.

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  • Smoked deer ham with cowberry and cheese cream (background), Peccary fillet salad with lettuce and nuts (foreground - there wasn't much peccary). —  Balderdash
  • Autumn recipe: Lingonberry or cowberry sauce for venison steaks —  The Guardian World News
  • Had some of Granma's (the mother of Jenafor, the lady who owns the hotel) wholewheat pancakes with cowberry syrup and sausages to prepare us for the long day ahead in the Buggy and then piled into the bus for the half an hour journey out onto the edge of the Tundra. —  TravelPod.com Recent Updates
  • Smoked deer ham with cowberry and cheese cream —  Balderdash
 

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  1. Approximate translation of New Latin Vaccīnium, genus name, from Latin vaccīnium, bilberry (sense uncertain), from vaccīnus, of cows.

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  1. from cow + berry. Cf. bilberry.
 

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