lowbush blueberry

noun

variants or less commonly low blueberry

1

: any of several low-growing North American blueberries that are usually considered to constitute a single highly variable species (Vaccinium angustifolium), have narrow serrulate leaves and sweet bluish black fruit with a heavy light blue bloom, and commonly form very large colonies by means of stolons

2

: the fruit of a lowbush blueberry

Word History

First Known Use

1867, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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