Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A low-growing evergreen shrub (Empetrum nigrum) native to cool regions of the Northern Hemisphere and having tiny leaves, small pinkish or purplish flowers, and black, berrylike fruits.
- n. The fruit of this plant.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The fruit of Empetrum nigrum, so called from its black color; the plant itself, a heath-like evergreen shrub common on heaths in Scotland and the north of England, and found in the northern United States and arctic America. Also called black crowberry and heathberry.
Wiktionary
- n. Empetrum; a small genus of dwarf evergreen shrubs that bear edible fruit.
- n. Empetrum nigrum; a species of crowberry.
- n. A fruit of such plant.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Bot.) A heathlike plant of the genus Empetrum, and its fruit, a black, scarcely edible berry; -- also called
crakeberry .
WordNet 3.0
- n. a low evergreen shrub with small purple flowers and black berrylike fruit
Etymologies
- crow + berry (Wiktionary)
- Probably translation of German Krähenbeere : Krähe, crow + Beere, berry. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The sweet-scented geranium abounded and so did the crowberry, which is a finer and sweeter kind than that which grows nearer the settlement.”
“In contrast, K. Taulavuori et al. [115], found decreased frost resistance in bilberry in response to elevated UV-B radiation levels and Beerling et al. [116] showed decreased frost resistance in bog whortleberry, lingonberry, and mountain crowberry.”
Phenotypic responses of arctic species to changes in climate and ultraviolet-B radiation
“Bog whortleberry (or bog bilberry – '' Vaccinium uliginosum ''), lingonberry, and mountain crowberry showed increases in leaf ice nucleation temperature exceeding 2.5 °C whereas bilberry showed no significant effect, as in another study [99].”
Phenotypic responses of arctic species to changes in climate and ultraviolet-B radiation
“Mountain crowberry and lingonberry showed no responses to enhanced UV-B radiation levels after seven years of exposure whereas bog whortleberry and bilberry showed few responses (Table 7.6).”
Phenotypic responses of arctic species to changes in climate and ultraviolet-B radiation
“Four dwarf shrubs were studied over the first three years of the experiment; one, the deciduous bilberry, showed increased annual stem growth (length) in the first year whereas two other evergreen dwarf shrubs (mountain crowberry – '' Empetrum hermaphroditum '' and lingonberry) showed reduced growth.”
Phenotypic responses of arctic species to changes in climate and ultraviolet-B radiation
“Laine [60] showed that the reproduction of bilberry ( '' Vaccinium myrtillus '') depended to some extent on the climate in the previous years (see section 14.7.3 for examples of this in trees), whereas Shevtsova et al. [61] showed no such response for co-occurring lingonberry and crowberry ( '' Empetrum nigrum '').”
Phenotypic responses of arctic species to changes in climate and ultraviolet-B radiation
“It consists chiefly of low mats of such herbaceous and shrubby species as dwarf arctic birch, crowberry, Labrador-tea, arctic willow, resin birch, and dwarf blueberry.”
“Typical species are dwarf birch Betula nana, Arctic crowberry Empetrum nigrum ssp. hermaphroditum and Arctic blueberry Vaccinium uliginosum ssp. microphyllum.”
“The dwarf scrub communities are dominated by crowberry (Empetrum nigrum) and include other ericads (Vaccinium spp.), arctic willow (Salix arctica), and white mountain-avens (Dryas octopetala).”
“This is a diverse community of ferns, sedges, grasses, angiosperms and mosses and is dominated by B. palmiforme, crowberry Empetrum rumbrum, grasses and sedges.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘crowberry’.
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Love Across Kingdoms
Appendix of sorts to AIC, listing plants named with reference to animals and vice versa.
duck potato, hog plum, sorrel mare, horse aloe, horse chestnut, banana slug, tiger lily, buffalo grass, tuna fruit, monkey puzzle, bull kelp, hawkweed and 133 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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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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berry neat
very nice enticing, berrilicious words
bearberry, sugarberry, jamberry, checkerberry, foxberry, farkleberry, spiceberry, inkberry, crowberry, wolfberry, thimbleberry, aleberry and 69 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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Alaska
Names of places, animals, plants, people, etc. found in and around Alaska.
grizzly, coho, roe, koyukon, chinook, sockeye, king salmon, chum, dog salmon, kipper, kelt, baggit and 221 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for crowberry.
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