Definition of Black bearberry

1. Noun. Deciduous creeping shrub bright red in autumn having black or blue-black berries; alpine and circumpolar.

Exact synonyms: Alpine Bearberry, Arctostaphylos Alpina
Generic synonyms: Bearberry

Lexicographical Neighbors of Black Bearberry

black apricot
black archangel
black art
black arts
black as coal
black ash
black babies
black bag
black bags
black bamboo
black bead
black beans
black bear
black bearberry (current term)
black bears
black bee
black beech
black beetle
black beetles
black belt
black belts
black bile
black bindweed
black birch
black bloc
black bodies
black body
black book

Literary usage of Black bearberry

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

1. C.E. Hobbs' Botanical Hand-book: Of Common Local, English, Botanical and by Charles E. Hobbs (1876)
"... black bearberry, Manzinita, Bearberry, Bears' car, Areca palm, Catechu, Betel nut tree, Cabbage palm, Sandwort, Small hemlock, Prickly poppy, ..."

2. Alpine Flowers for English Gardens by William Robinson (1870)
"The black bearberry (A. alpina), a plant very rarely seen in cultivation, a native of high alpine or arctic regions, ..."

3. C.E. Hobbs' Botanical Hand-book: Of Common Local, English, Botanical and by Charles E. Hobbs (1876)
"... black bearberry, Manzinita, Bearberry, Bears' car, Areca palm, Catechu, Betel nut tree, Cabbage palm, Sandwort, Small hemlock, Prickly poppy, ..."

4. Alpine Flowers for English Gardens by William Robinson (1870)
"The black bearberry (A. alpina), a plant very rarely seen in cultivation, a native of high alpine or arctic regions, ..."

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