mossberry

Noun

mossberry (plural mossberries)

1. Empetrum nigrum, a species of crowberry.
   • Many kinds of wild fruit gave variety to our diet of fish and birds—red currants and gooseberries, red raspberries and black mossberries, high and low-bush cranberries, and, best of all, the northern blueberries, which grow profusely all over this part of the Yukon.1942 May, William Hamilton Albee, Ruth Albee, “Family Afoot in Yukon Wilds: Two Young Children and Their Parents Live Off the Country in the Northwest Canada Wilderness Now To Be Traversed by the...
   • Small black mossberries, indigenous to the Aleutian Islands, are a favorite of the Aleuts, but almost any wild berry will do, as well as garden variety currants, cooked and sweetened cranberries, and, in Alaska, any variety of tundra fruit.1983, the Editors and Friends of ALASKA® magazine, “The Cook’s Tour”, in Cooking Alaskan, Anchorage, Ak.: Alaska Northwest Publishing Company, →ISBN, book one (From The Waters), page 73, column 2

   Synonyms:

   rockberry