bearberries

It's a stretch to call it a dream, but tops on my Dalton Highway wish list was stalking willow ptarmigan with a bow, out on the open tundra amid the blueberries, bearberries, cranberries, and cottongrass.

How and Where to Hunt and Fish on Alaska's Dalton Highway 2004

We take a single break to climb a high ridge of barren rock to gorge on bearberries and gaze over the huge country from which we'd taken but a tiny, tentative bite.

Field and Stream Adventure: The Search for the Best Brook Trout Spot on Earth 2004

Arm in arm with thimbleberries and bearberries, they grew wild over much of the park.

Blood Lure Barr, Nevada 2001

Juniper berries, which were particularly good with meat if they didn't use too many, were prevalent; rose hips were more sporadic, but usually plentiful when found, and always sweeter after freezing; creeping crowberry, with a needlelike evergreen foliage, had small shiny black berries that often persisted through the winter, as did blue bearberries and red lingonberries.

The Plains of Passage Auel, Jean M. 1990

A certain variety of round, hard starchy roots that took well to long cooking came out first, followed by baskets of a mixture of bone marrow, blue bearberries, and a variety of cracked and ground seeds -- pigweed, a mixture of grains, and oily pignon seeds.

The Mammoth Hunters Auel, Jean M. 1985

In the immediate vicinity were also nuts, high-bush cranberries, bearberries, hard small apples, starchy potatolike roots, and edible ferns.

The Clan of the Cave Bear Auel, Jean M. 1980

Besides this best of all Norse wild fruits, the fjelds produce many excellent berries, such as crowberries, whortleberries, marsh whortleberries, bearberries, dewberries, cranberries, and others.

Peeps at Many Lands: Norway Nico [Illustrator] Jungman 1893

You would frequently think, from the character of the surface, the dwarfish trees, and the bearberries around, that you were on the top of a mountain.

Cape Cod 1865

"Yes, ma'am," said Asahel staring a little; – "there's red raspberries, and black raspberries, and low-bush blackberries and high blackberries, and huckleberries, and bearberries, and cranberries; besides nuts, and apples.

The Hills of the Shatemuc 1856

"Yes, ma'am," said Asahel staring a little; -- "there's red raspberries, and black raspberries, and low-bush blackberries and high blackberries, and huckleberries, and bearberries, and cranberries; besides nuts, and apples.

Hills of the Shatemuc Susan Warner 1852