| 单词 | red bilberry |
| 释义 | > as lemmasred bilberry red bilberry n. either of two red-berried shrubs of the genus Vaccinium, V. vitis-idaea and V. parvifolium; (also) the fruit of these plants (cf. red whortleberry n.). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > tree or plant producing edible berries > cow-berry bush red whorts1578 red whortleberry1597 red bilberry1652 cow-berry1800 1652 N. Culpeper Eng. Physitian Enlarged 16 The Red Bilberry, or whortle-bush, riseth up like the former, having sundry harder Leaves, like the Box-Tree Leaves. 1767 J. Robertson Jrnl. 20 June in D. M. Henderson & J. H. Dickson Naturalist in Highlands (1994) ii. 43 The plants I observed in flower [on Ben Nevis] were..Vaccinium Myrtillus Common Bil, Blea-berry..Vitis idaea Red Bil-berry [etc.]. 1824 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Gardening (ed. 2) iii. i. 746 The red bilberry, or cowberry [printed crowberry], Vaccinium Vitis Idæa... The fruit is acid and somewhat bitter, but makes a very good rob or jelly. 1942 Brittonia 4 225 The highbush red bilberry, Vaccinium parvifolium Smith, is one of the characteristic shrubs of the lowlands and mountain valleys from Santa Cruz and Fresno Counties, California, northward into Alaska. 1995 Washington Post (Nexis) 16 July e2 The airelle is not a mushroom but the red bilberry, vaguely reminiscent of our cranberry. < as lemmas |
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