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‖ vaccinium Bot.|vækˈsɪnɪəm|
[L. vaccīnium bilberry (?).]
a. A large genus of plants, chiefly belonging to the northern hemisphere, many species of which bear edible berries.
b. One or other species of this genus; spec. a bilberry.
1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Vaccinium, a Black-berry, a Bilberry, or Hurtle-berry; also a Violet-flower. 1753Chambers' Cycl. Suppl., Vaccinium, in botany, a name by which some authors have called the great bilberry, or vitis idæa magna of other writers. 1796Withering Brit. Pl. (ed. 3) II. 372 In structure [this is] certainly different from the other Vacciniums. 1819Stephens in Shaw Gen. Zool. XI. ii. 269 It feeds upon the berries..of the vaccinium. 1882Garden 29 Apr. 292/2 Vacciniums mix well with American plants. 1894Fenn In Alpine Valley III. 36 The dense mass of tender leaved vaccinium. |