Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. 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.
- n. The edible red berry of this plant, used to make sauces, jams, and preserves.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A name of the plant Vaccinium Vitis-Idæa or red huckleberry. See Vaccinium.
Wiktionary
- n. A shrub native to the cool temperate areas of the Northern Hemisphere (Vaccinium vitis-idaea).
- n. The berry of this shrub.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Bot.) A species of Vaccinium (Vaccinium Vitis-idæa), which bears acid red berries which are sometimes used in cookery; -- locally called
mountain cranberry .
WordNet 3.0
- n. tart red berries similar to American cranberries but smaller
- n. low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries
Etymologies
- Approximate translation of New Latin Vaccīnium, genus name, from Latin vaccīnium, bilberry (sense uncertain), from vaccīnus, of cows. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“It is often called a "cowberry" and is a member of the cranberry family.”
“On the steeper slopes of hummocky ground there were banks of blaeberry and cowberry with a very deep layer of mosses.”
“None of us were particularly knowledgeable about the culinary habits of Russians, so we were pleased to find ourselves in a reasonably stylish restaurant looking over the Neva river with a menu which featured a wide range of choices such as beet carpaccio salad; cottage cheese and herbs; venison medallions with cowberry sauce and pelmeni stuffed with veal and pumpkin.”
“Ground cover consists of cowberry Vaccinium vitis-idaea (R), bilberry V. myrtillus and reindeer mosses Cladonia spp ..”
“I was fairly stumped about what a cowberry would be, until Wikipedia informed me they're the same thing as lingonberries.”
“The house we're renting has its own boat and fishing rods, fruit trees in the garden, and the owner has given me maps for nearby cowberry picking.”
“According to a few websites the cowberry is also known as the lingonberry, foxberry, mountain cranberry Vaccinium vitis-idaea.”
“One day she's out tending sheep on the hillside, when she comes across a cowberry, which she eats 'Marjatta' suggests the Finnish word marja, 'berry'.”
“We call them, well, lingonberries although a quick glance at my Swedish-English dictionary also translates lingon as red whortleberry or cowberry, which sounds like something out of Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market, which is to say very 19th century obscure and hifalutin English.”
“From moss-topped knuckle rings to couture heels layered in cowberry leaves, here are seven eco-accessories that put the "green" in green fashion ....”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cowberry’.
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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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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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