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crowberries

crowberries is the plural of crowberry.

Meaning of crowberry

Noun

crowberry (plural crowberries)

  1. Empetrum; a small genus of dwarf evergreen shrubs that bear edible fruit.
    Synonyms:
    crakeberry
    1. Empetrum nigrum; a species of crowberry.
      • Black crowberry. Empetrum nigrum. Crowberry Family. Fruit. — The black drupe is berrylike, globular, and incloses six to nine seedlike nutlets with a seed in each. The calyx is at the base and the stigma is at the apex. The drupes are solitary in the leaf axils. They are juicy, acid, edible, and...1905, Maude Gridley Peterson, How to Know Wild Fruits: A Guide to Plants When Not in Flower by Means of Fruit and Leaf, Macmillan, page 202
  2. A fruit of this plant.

Questions about crowberries

What is crowberries the plural of?
Crowberries is the plural of crowberry.

Words near crowberries in the dictionary

  1. crowbar
  2. crowbar hotel
  3. crowbarred
  4. crowbarring
  5. crowbars
  6. crowberries
  7. crowberry
  8. crowbill
  9. crowbills
  10. Crowborough
  11. Crowcombe

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