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Definition of Red bearberry
1. Noun. Evergreen mat-forming shrub of North America and northern Eurasia having small white flowers and red berries; leaves turn red in autumn.
Generic synonyms: Bearberry
Lexicographical Neighbors of Red Bearberry
Literary usage of Red bearberry
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1912)
"361). and in the red bearberry, ... from the leaves of red bearberry with dilute
hydrochloric or sulphuric acid, ..."
2. Mountain Wild Flowers of Canada: A Simple and Popular Guide to the Names and by Julia Wilmotte Henshaw (1906)
"red bearberry . . . Alpine Bearberry . . Bird's-eye Primrose Shooting Star . .
. Red Indian Paint-brush PAGE • 139 • 47 . 148 Erigeron glabellus (Pink to ..."
3. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord. Britton, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"About 40 species, the following typical one of the northern hemisphere, the others
of western • » , 'I /WWV i. Uva-Ursi Uva-Ursi (L.) Britton. red bearberry ..."
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