alpine bilberry
noun
variants
or alpine blueberry
plural alpine bilberries or alpine blueberries
: a low-growing deciduous shrub (Vaccinium uliginosum) of the heath family that grows in cool temperate regions of North America and Eurasia and has pink to white urn-shaped flowers and blue to bluish-black edible berries
also
: the berry of the alpine bilberry
Note: The shrub and berry are more commonly known as bog bilberry or bog blueberry.
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