noun
evergreen mat-forming shrub of North America and northern Eurasia having small white flowers and red berries; leaves turn red in autumn
• Syn:
↑common bearberry, ↑red bearberry, ↑wild cranberry, ↑hog cranberry, ↑sand berry, ↑sandberry, ↑mountain box, ↑bear's grape, ↑creashak, ↑Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
• Hypernyms: ↑bearberry
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\\ˈmēl- — see berry\ noun : bearberry 1
Useful english dictionary. 2012.