Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. See cowberry.
Wiktionary
- n. A shrub native to the cool temperate areas of the Northern Hemisphere.
- n. The berry of this shrub.
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
- lingon + berry (Wiktionary)
- Swedish lingon, a kind of berry + berry. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“A lingonberry is a small red berry, very much like a cranberry, but sweeter, not quite as tart.”
“According to a few websites the cowberry is also known as the lingonberry, foxberry, mountain cranberry Vaccinium vitis-idaea.”
“Swedish meatballs/salmon fillet, new potatoes, steamed veggie, lingonberry sauce/juice …”
Matthew Yglesias » School Lunch Or; How to Make Government Work
“Something Scandinavian would be nice, like pickled anything with an aquavit, lingonberry, dill sauce, but call it glaze.”
The Huffington Post: Anna Brones: Formulating the Foolproof Foodie Menu
“Take, for example, the BAMcafé's entry—little more than chef Tim Sullivan's launching pad for a Vesuvius of Hudson Valley duck confit, lingonberry chutney and crispy kale.”
“Mr. Cowell, 51 years old, sipped on his specially formulated antiaging smoothie, which he drinks daily, made with imported lingonberry, acerola berry, chokeberry and aronia juice flown in specially from exotic locations.”
“The lure of a lingonberry, say, is weighed against the social and environmental costs of importing cases across international lines.”
The Wall Street Journal: Taste of Scandinavia, via Catskills
“In Blenheim Farm's hydroponic greenhouse, a lone lingonberry was visible, now little more than a fleck of red buried in a swell of leaves.”
The Wall Street Journal: Taste of Scandinavia, via Catskills
“Beef meatballs ($8), are perfectly adequate, served with an ordinary brown gravy, a rich and velvety celeriac-potato mash, and some lingonberry preserves.”
“There are also hearty Swedish meatballs ($7.50), made from pork and veal, sitting in a light gravy and served with simple boiled potatoes and a generous dollop of lingonberry preserves.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘lingonberry’.
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Exotic Fruits
List naming fruits found in foreign markets and lands that are seldom seen or heard of in America.
durian, ababai, cornelian cherry, sloe, ackee, Adam's fig, apple cactus, pitahaya, dragon fruit, pitaya, asam gelugor, tamarind and 347 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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Jams, Jellies, and Preserves
I've thought of a few of the most common sorts. Additions sought.
traffic, door, toe, fish, wildlife, bean, strawberry, apricot, raspberry, blackberry, boysenberry, grape and 51 more...
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Flora
fenugreek, verbena, saxifrage, arbutus, calendula, nasturtium, lobelia, hellebore, rhododendron, philodendron, bellflower, heuchera and 449 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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...:::bella:::...
originally started as an attempt to collect words I found visually and auditorially beautiful, as well as psychically evocative, this has become nothing more than a grab bag of word curiosities, a ...
bergamot, jambalaya, bee's knees, heliotrope, hosanna, gamboge, aureole, filial, madrigal, multilingual, sacrosanct, sojourn and 1072 more...
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Food
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spaghetti, yogurt, muesli, rarebit, wheat, cream, cheese, pumpkin, custard, couscous, oats, sausage and 237 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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verdure
word garden
botany, flora, flowerage, greenery, herbage, vegetation, verdure, horticulture, husbandry, herb, annual, blossom and 72 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...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for lingonberry.
jennarenn c_b beat me to the punch. I was a big fan of out loud on toast with lingonberry butter. Jan 23, 2009
reesetee He eats all of their forests, that's what. Jan 23, 2009
chained_bear ... What do Swedes have against Euell Gibbons?
*joke* Jan 23, 2009
dontcry Also popular with Swedes. Lingonberries, that is, not Euell Gibbons. Jan 23, 2009
chained_bear No, no, I recognized the commercial! I didn't recognize the name when y'all were just talking about it. Jan 23, 2009
reesetee Such a young'un. ;-> Jan 23, 2009
chained_bear ha ha!! *finally gets it* Jan 23, 2009
reesetee But many parts of him were edible. Jan 23, 2009
sionnach Chortleberry! Jan 22, 2009
skipvia Tastes like wild hickory nuts!
He died of Dutch Elm disease, you know... Jan 22, 2009
frogapplause Who else is old enough to remember Euell Gibbons and his highbush cranberries? Jan 22, 2009
bilby Damn! Farkleberry was the best one! Jan 22, 2009
sionnach Just in case anyone is puzzled, I deleted farkleberry and whortleberry from the list in the previous comment; as they appear not to be red.
There seems to be more than a little confusion out there as far as berry nomenclature is concerned.
I tried to verify whether or not moss peach is another term for lingonberry, as one of the blog comments seemed to suggest. But the google search results scared me away. Though not before I found out that Peaches Geldoff has apparently supplanted Kate Moss as the face/body of Agent Provocateur, whatever that might be. Jan 22, 2009
chained_bear Cuuuute...
This berry, though it does not suck, makes an appearance on this list. Jan 22, 2009
john Also known as the Ikea berry. Jan 22, 2009
sionnach Also known as:
foxberry
cowberry
partridgeberry
sparkleberry
lowbush cranberry
mountain cranberry
csejka berry
hurtleberry
mountain bilberry
bilbyberry*
red whortleberry
redberry
Vaccinium vitis idaea
бру�?ника
Preiselbeerchen
airelle (I'm a little doubtful about this, as the French-English dictionary lists bilberry and cranberry as the translation; however, the only French word given for cranberry is canneberge)
*: madeupical
Source: languagehat entry (and comments); Dec 24th, 2008.
Jan 22, 2009
bilby Commonly used to make jam for pancakes in Finland. Dec 7, 2007
rolig Nabokov insists that it is this berry from which is made the beverage Tatyana's mother serves on Onegin's first visit: "brusnichnaya voda" (which one might easily be tempted to translate "cranberry water"). In his Commentary, Nabokov wittily calls this drink lingonade. Dec 7, 2007