bog bilberry

noun

variants or bog blueberry

plural bog bilberries or bog 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 bog bilberry

Note: The shrub and fruit are also known as alpine bilberry or alpine blueberry.

Word History

First Known Use

1848, in the meaning defined above