| 单词 | mossberry | 
| 释义 | mossberryn.  Any of various small berries growing on marshy ground or in mossy areas; spec.		 (a) a species of cranberry,  Vaccinium oxycoccos, or its fruit;		 (b) North American regional (Alaska and Canadian) the crowberry,  Empetrum nigrum, or its fruit. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > 			[noun]		 > edible berries > cranberry fen-berry1578 fen whort1578 marish whort1578 bearberry1651 mossberry1670 bog berry1760 lingonberry1866 dingleberry1923 1670    J. Ray Catalogus Plantarum Angliæ 310  				Vaccinia palustria Ger...Marsh Whortle-berries, Mosse-berries, or Moor-berries. On moorish grounds and quagmires. 1732    J. Martyn tr.  J. P. de Tournefort Hist. Plants Paris II. 153  				Oxycoccus... Cran-berries,..Moss-berries, or Moor-berries. 1785    M. Cutler in  Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts & Sci. 1 439  				The Craneberry or Mossberry. 1869    Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 178 in  U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV  				Among them [sc. small fruits] may be noted..mossberries [etc.]. 1879    tr.  M. Busch Bismarck in Franco-German War I. vii. 183  				The Chief then spoke as a thorough connoisseur of wild fruits, bilberries, whortle-berries, and moss-berries. 1897    Overland Monthly Sept. 202/2  				The mossberry, a small round black berry growing in the moss, ripens in the fall and is then good to eat. 1908    L. Hubbard Woman's Way through Unknown Labrador 225  				There is a big bed of moss berries (a small black berry, which grows on a species of moss and is quite palatable) right at my tent door. 1951    M. E. Winchell Home by Bering Sea 186  				Down on hands and knees on the hillside would be another group busily picking and eating the small black moss-berries. 1977    J. McPhee Coming into Country  iii. 317  				If you're dying of thirst, you can get water out of those mossberries. 1991    R. Tabbert Dict. Alaskan Eng. 177  				Still another Alaskan name for E. nigrum is mossberry. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  | 
	
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