dwarf bilberry

noun

plural dwarf bilberries

: a low-growing North American deciduous shrub (Vaccinium caespitosum synonym V. cespitosum) of the heath family with finely serrated, small oval leaves, pink to white urn-shaped flowers, and dark blue edible berries

Another wildflower that could break your heart with its delicacy is the dwarf bilberry … . Found in and above spruce-fir forests, this ground-covering heath's tiny, pink and white, bell-shaped flowers will become sweet berries later in the summer.

—Karin Teague

also : the berry of the dwarf bilberry

Word History

First Known Use

1848, in the meaning defined above