Define the word Vaccinium pennsylvanicum"Vaccinium Pennsylvanicum" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
Blueberry \Blue"berry\, n. [Cf. Blaeberry.] (Bot.)
The berry of several species of Vaccinium, an ericaceous
genus, differing from the American huckleberries in
containing numerous minute seeds instead of ten nutlets. The
commonest species are Vaccinium Pennsylvanicum and
Vaccinium vacillans. Vaccinium corymbosum is the tall
blueberry.
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"Vaccinium pennsylvanicum" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"
Vaccinium pennsylvanicum
n : low-growing deciduous shrub of northeastern North America
having flowers in compact racemes and bearing sweet dark
blue berries [syn: low-bush blueberry, low blueberry,
Vaccinium angustifolium]
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