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EnglishTHE SCHOLAR'S LEXICON

bearberry

/bair-ber-ee, -buh-ree/US // ˈbɛərˌbɛr i, -bə ri //UK // (ˈbɛəbərɪ) //

熊果树,熊莓,熊果,熊果园

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural bear·ber·ries.

    • : any of several prostrate shrubs belonging to the genus Arctostaphylos, of the heath family, especially A. uva-ursi, having tonic, astringent leaves and bright-red berries.
    • : cascara.
    • : possum haw.
    • : any of several other plants, as some species of cranberry.

Examples

  • Arctostaphylos (bearberry) and Andromeda are arctic and alpine genera occurring in Britain.

  • Uva Ursi (Bearberry Leaves), leaves of red whortleberry, and others.

  • Etienne was some distance away gathering bearberry leaves to dry and mix with his smoking tobacco to make kinni-kinnik.

  • There they dined on blueberries, and slept on thick beds of moss and low growing blueberry and bearberry plants.

  • He was out of tobacco, but used bearberry leaves and willow bark in his pipe.

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