英语词汇“crowberry”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

crowberry

释义

crowberry|ˈkrəʊbɛrɪ|
[prob. a translation of Ger. krähenbeere; the northern synonym crakeberry (see crake) may be of Norse origin: cf. Da. kragebær.]
1. The fruit of a small evergreen heath-like shrub (Empetrum nigrum), found on heaths in northern Europe and America; the berry is black and of insipid taste. Also the plant itself.
1597Gerarde Herbal App. to Table, Crow berries, Erica baccifera.1769J. Wallis Nat. Hist. Northumb. I. viii. 145 Berry-bearing Heath, Crow-berry, or Crake-berry.1776Withering Brit. Plants (1796) II. 177 Black-berried Heath, Black Crow-berries, Crake-berries..in bogs and moorish grounds.1831Carlyle Sart. Res. i. i, Apt to run goose-hunting into regions of bilberries and crowberries, and be swallowed up at last in remote peat-bogs.1837Macdougall tr. Graah's E. Coast Greenl. 32 The walls..being overgrown with dwarf-willow, crowberry, and whortleberry bushes.
2. a. Extended to plants of the allied genus Corema and their fruit. b. Erroneously applied in some parts of Britain to the bilberry, Vaccinium Myrtillus, and the cowberry, V. Vitis-Idæa.
1866Treas. Bot. 351 Broom Crowberry, an American name for Corema.1884Miller Plant-n., Broom Crowberry, Corema (Empetrum) Conradii. Portugal Crow-berry, Corema lusitanicum.

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