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Definition of Cowberries
1. cowberry [n] - See also: cowberry
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cowberries
Literary usage of Cowberries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise of All Sorts of Foods: Both Animal and Vegetable: Also of by Louis Lémery (1745)
"... of cowberries is allay'd, by mixing a little Sugar with them, whereby they
will bt ... cowberries contain a little Oil in them, and a great Deal of ..."
2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1886)
"(2) Comarum palustre, L.—' In some parts of Scotland the fruits are called
cowberries, on account, it is said, of their being used to rub the inside of ..."
3. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"In some parts of Scotland, it is said, they are called cowberries, and are rubbed
on the inside of milk pails to thicken the milk. ..."
4. Through Siberia, the Land of the Future by Fridtjof Nansen (1914)
"... we got some delicious cowberries aboard, as well as bird cherries, which are
commonly eaten here in Siberia. Altogether there are many wild berries here ..."
5. A Text-book of Plant Diseases Caused by Cryptogamic Parasites by George Massee (1907)
"If conifers happen to be growing in the neighbourhood of diseased cowberries,
and spores from the latter are carried on to the surface of young conifer ..."
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