bog bilberry
noun
variants or bog blueberry
plural bog bilberries or bog blueberries
: a low-growing deciduous shrub (Vaccinium uliginosum) of the heath family that grows in cool temperate regions of North America and Eurasia and has pink to white urn-shaped flowers and blue to bluish-black edible berries
also : the berry of the bog bilberry
Note: The shrub and fruit are also known as alpine bilberry or alpine blueberry.
Word History
First Known Use
1848, in the meaning defined above