Lexic.us

Definition of Swamp blueberry

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 Swamp Blueberry

Literary usage of Swamp blueberry

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

1. Bulletin by United States Bureau of Plant Industry, Division of Plant Industry, Queensland (1911)
"(32) Plants of the swamp blueberry are exceedingly hardy and pass the winter in good condition outdoors when the soil is covered merely with an oak-leaf ..."

2. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"swamp blueberry. Fig. 3892. A tall handsome bushy shrub, 4-12 ft. high, with yellowish ... DOWNY swamp blueberry. A tall branching shrub similar to the last ..."

3. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1911)
"Regarding the well known fact that the swamp blueberry and certain other plants, as Cypripedium acaule and Azalea ..."

4. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1911)
"... common cultivated plants, nevertheless even the swamp blueberry may be very successfully grown in the right kind of soil, as for instance Kalmia peat. ..."

5. The Young Folks' Catechism of Common Things by John Denison Champlin (1886)
"Yes; the principal kinds are the common black huckleberry, the dwarf blueberry, and the swamp blueberry. The bilberry, called in Scotland blaeberry, ..."

6. The Child's Catechism of Common Things by John Denison Champlin (1880)
"Yes; the principal kinds are the common black huckleberry, the dwarf blueberry, and the swamp blueberry. The bilberry, called in Scotland blaeberry, ..."

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