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.

Word History

First Known Use

1843, in the meaning defined above