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Bearberry  n.  (Bot.) A trailing plant of the heath family (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi), having leaves which are tonic and astringent, and glossy red berries of which bears are said to be fond.






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"Bearberry" Quotes from Famous Books



... very beautiful in colour, red granite, spotted with orange and black lichen on its face, and carpeted with caribou moss and species of cetraria, great patches of tripe-de-roche, beds of saxifrage, long trailers, and masses of bearberry, empetrum, ground cedar, juniper, cryptograma, and many others; while the trees, willow, birch, and spruce are full of character and drawing. Sky and lake are in colour worthy of these rich details, the bird life is well represented and beautiful; there ...
— The Arctic Prairies • Ernest Thompson Seton

... and decided to be a vine, with leaves as glossy as laurel, bells pink-striped and sweet like the arbutus, and berries in clusters and of scarlet instead of black. The Indians call it kinnikinnick, and smoke it in their pipes. White men call it bearberry, I believe; and there is a Latin name for it, no doubt, in the books. But kinnikinnick is the best,—dainty, sturdy, indefatigable kinnikinnick, green and glossy all the year round, lovely at Christmas and lovely among flowers at midsummer, as content and thrifty on bare, rocky ...
— Composition-Rhetoric • Stratton D. Brooks



Words linked to "Bearberry" :   chittimwood, hog cranberry, Ilex decidua, alpine bearberry, possum haw, cascara buckthorn, Arctostaphylos, genus Arctostaphylos, sandberry, bush, Arctostaphylos alpina, cascara sagrada, creashak, shrub, sand berry, cascara, bear's grape, mealberry, buckthorn, bearberry willow, wild cranberry



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