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noun
Any of several shrubs belonging to the genus Vaccinium:
Vaccinium myrtillus (bilberry or blue whortleberry);
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: hurt, hurtle, whortle bush
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Any of several shrubs belonging to the genus Vaccinium:
Vaccinium vitis-idaea (lingonberry or red whortleberry);
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: hurt, hurtle, whortle bush
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Any of several shrubs belonging to the genus Vaccinium:
Vaccinium uliginosum (bog whortleberry or bilberry).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: hurt, hurtle, whortle bush
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A berry of one of these shrubs.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: hurt, hurtle, whort
Antonyms: none provided
noun
blue-black berries similar to American blueberries
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: bilberry, European blueberry
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: berry
noun
erect European blueberry having solitary flowers and blue-black berries
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: bilberry, whinberry, blaeberry, Viccinium myrtillus
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: blueberry, blueberry bush
History
An alteration of Middle English hurtilbery, hurtil-beri (see English hurtleberry), analysable as whortle + berry. Compare English huckleberry.
Across languages
7 source translations are retained for this English entry.
