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Definition of Foxberry
1. Noun. Low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries.
Terms within: Cowberry, Lingonberry, Lowbush Cranberry, Mountain Cranberry
Generic synonyms: Cranberry
Definition of Foxberry
1. Noun. The plant cowberry or lingonberry, ''Vaccinium vitis-idaea''. ¹
2. Noun. The berry of this plant. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Foxberry
1. the red whortleberry [n FOXBERRIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Foxberry
Literary usage of Foxberry
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sporting Magazine edited by [Anonymus AC02751662] (1828)
"At last, after a three-mile race, they came to a lofty bank with an ancient
beechen tree hanging over it ; bang at it went the foxberry, impelled by bis ..."
2. How to Know Wild Fruits: A Guide to Plants when Not in Flower by Means of by Maude Gridley Peterson (1914)
"MOUNTAIN CRANBERRY foxberry Vaccinium Vitis-Idaea Huckleberry Family Fruit.
— The four- to five-celled, many-seeded berry is dark red ..."
3. Portraits of Celebrated Racehorses of the Past and Present Centuries: In by Thomas Henry Taunton (1888)
"foxberry, by Voltaire, three years, 7st 4lbs ; only two ran. ... beating foxberry
in a canter. 1843. At Ascot, gst 13lbs, not placed for the Queen's Plate, ..."
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