Definition of vaccinium

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Vaccinium (n.) A genus of ericaceous shrubs including the various kinds of blueberries and the true cranberries.

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Deerberry :: Deerberry (n.) A shrub of the blueberry group (Vaccinium stamineum); also, its bitter, greenish white berry; -- called also squaw huckleberry..
Whortleberry :: Whortleberry (n.) In England, the fruit of Vaccinium Myrtillus; also, the plant itself. See Bilberry, 1..
Huckleberry :: Huckleberry (n.) The edible black or dark blue fruit of several species of the American genus Gaylussacia, shrubs nearly related to the blueberries (Vaccinium), and formerly confused with them. The commonest huckelberry comes from G. resinosa..
Bogberry :: Bogberry (n.) The small cranberry (Vaccinium oxycoccus), which grows in boggy places..
Bilberry :: Bilberry (n.) The European whortleberry (Vaccinium myrtillus); also, its edible bluish black fruit..
Bilberry :: Bilberry (n.) Any similar plant or its fruit; esp., in America, the species Vaccinium myrtilloides, V. caespitosum and V. uliginosum..
Bluets :: Bluets (a.) A name given to several different species of plants having blue flowers, as the Houstonia coerulea, the Centaurea cyanus or bluebottle, and the Vaccinium angustifolium..
Vaccinium :: Vaccinium (n.) A genus of ericaceous shrubs including the various kinds of blueberries and the true cranberries.
Cowberry :: Cowberry (n.) A species of Vaccinium (V. Vitis-idaea), which bears acid red berries which are sometimes used in cookery; -- locally called mountain cranberry..
Blueberry :: Blueberry (n.) The berry of several species of Vaccinium, an ericaceous genus, differing from the American huckleberries in containing numerous minute seeds instead of ten nutlets. The commonest species are V. Pennsylvanicum and V. vacillans. V. corymbosum is the tall blueberry..
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