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Definition of Tall bilberry

1. Noun. High-growing deciduous shrub of eastern North America bearing edible blueish to blackish berries with a distinct bloom; source of most cultivated blueberries.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tall Bilberry

Literary usage of Tall bilberry

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Minnesota Plant Life by Conway MacMillan (1899)
"Here are to be classified the bog huckleberry, the dwarf bilberry, the thin-leafed bilberry, the tall bilberry, the tall blueberry, the Canada blueberry, ..."

2. The Canadian Settler's Guide by Catherine Parr Strickland Traill (1857)
"red gooseberries : the dwarf kind seldom exceeds three or font feet in height, and the tall bilberry, or Juneberry, is a beautiful-growing shrub, ..."

3. Fraser's Magazine (1875)
"At length we began to descend, and soon reached splendid sunshine. We again walked and rode alternately, passing through a copse of tall bilberry bushes (a ..."

4. Fraser's Magazine by Thomas Carlyle (1875)
"At length we began to descend, and soon reached splendid sunshine. We again walked and rode alternately, passing through a copse of tall bilberry bushes ..."

5. Reports of the Survey (1899)
"Here are to be classified the bog huckleberry, the dwarf bilberry, the thin-leafed bilberry, the tall bilberry, the tall blueberry, the Canada blueberry, ..."

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