noun
deciduous creeping shrub bright red in autumn having black or blue-black berries; alpine and circumpolar
• Syn: ↑alpine bearberry, ↑Arctostaphylos alpina
• Hypernyms: ↑bearberry
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noun : a depressed arctic-alpine shrub (Arctostaphylos alpinus) with evergreen leaves and black fruit
Useful english dictionary. 2012.