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Definition of Bearberries
1. bearberry [n] - See also: bearberry
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bearberries
Literary usage of Bearberries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1876)
"One crop contained twenty-seven strawberries, twenty-eight bearberries, and twelve
shepherdia berries, besides flowers, leaves, and insects, ..."
2. American Game-bird Shooting by George Bird Grinnell (1910)
"But one crop contained twenty-seven strawberries, twenty-eight bearberries and
twelve sheperdia berries, besides flowers, leaves and insects, ..."
3. Cape Cod by Henry David Thoreau (1908)
"You would frequently think, from the character of the surface, the dwarfish trees,
and the bearberries around, that you were on the top of a mountain. ..."
4. Economic and Social History of New England, 1620-1789 by William Babcock Weeden (1890)
"They gathered " bearberries" by the wayside. In 1717 8 Moses Prince, brother of
the annalist, saw at Gloucester a carriage of two wheels for two horses; ..."
5. Birds that Hunt and are Hunted: Life Histories of One Hundred and Seventy by Neltje Blanchan (1905)
"... a covey of from seven to ten feeding on bearberries, raspberries, and other
wild fruits, insects, especially grasshoppers, tender leaves, and leaf buds, ..."
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