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Definition of Crowberries
1. crowberry [n] - See also: crowberry
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crowberries
Literary usage of Crowberries
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)
"crowberries are heath-like shrubs and resemble diminutive yews. ... The crowberries
are rather rare in Minnesota, but are known to occur on the north shore ..."
2. Reports of the Survey (1899)
"crowberries are heath-like shrubs and resemble diminutive yews. ... The crowberries
are rather rare in Minnesota, but are known to occur on the north shore ..."
3. The Lives of the Saints by Sabine Baring-Gould (1877)
"making wine of crowberries, which had been taught him by King ... The following
summer, however, was not fruitful in crowberries, and only one man in the ..."
4. The Vegetable World: Being a History of Plants, with Their Botanical by Louis Figuier (1867)
"The crowberries are small acrid shrubs with heath-like leaves, without ) stipules,
and minute flowers in their axils ; they are Arctic plants slightly ..."
5. The First Crossing of Greenland by Fridtjof Nansen (1897)
"All we could do, therefore, was to lie here, and go on with our crowberries.
At last we grew so torpid that we had not the energy to pick the berries any ..."
6. The Musical World (1875)
"Herr Nottebohm could never be charged with " goose hunting," or with exploring "regions
of bilberries and crowberries," but, ..."
7. The Ramrod Broken, Or, The Bible, History, and Common Sense in Favor of the by New England journalist (1859)
"... while at a feast given by some respectable Greenlanders were half raw and
putrid seals' flesh, putrid whales' tail, preserved crowberries ..."
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