crowberryn.
/ˈkrəʊbɛri/ 1. The fruit of a small evergreen heath-like shrub ( Empetrum nigrum), found on heaths in northern Europe and America; the berry is black and of insipid taste. Also the plant itself.
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1597 J. Gerard Herball App. Crow berries, Erica baccifera.
1769 J. Wallis Nat. Hist. Northumberland I. viii. 145 Berry-bearing Heath, Crow-berry, or Crake-berry.
1776 W. Withering Brit. Plants (1796) II. 177 Black-berried Heath, Black Crow-berries, Crake-berries..in bogs and moorish grounds.
1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus i. i. 2/1 Apt to run goose-hunting into regions of bilberries and crowberries, and be swallowed up at last in remote peat-bogs.
1837 G. G. Macdougall tr. W. A. Graah Narr. Exped. East Coast Greenland 32 The walls..being overgrown with dwarf-willow, crowberry, and whortleberry bushes.
2.
a. Extended to plants of the allied genus Corema and their fruit.
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dogberry1688
amelanchier1693
cassioberry1753
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crowberry1866
Portugal crakeberry1866
bead-plant1878
osoberry1884
pearl berry1884
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 351 Broom Crowberry, an American name for Corema.
1884 W. Miller Dict. Eng. Names Plants Broom Crowberry, Corema (Empetrum) Conradii. Portugal Crow-berry, Corema lusitanicum.
b. Erroneously applied in some parts of Britain to the bilberry, Vaccinium Myrtillus, and the cowberry, V. Vitis-Idæa.
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