BLUEBERRY BUSH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blueberry bush mean? 

• BLUEBERRY BUSH (noun)
  The noun BLUEBERRY BUSH has 1 sense:

1. any of numerous shrubs of the genus Vaccinium bearing blueberries

  Familiarity information: BLUEBERRY BUSH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLUEBERRY BUSH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of numerous shrubs of the genus Vaccinium bearing blueberries

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

blueberry; blueberry bush

Hypernyms ("blueberry bush" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "blueberry bush"):

huckleberry (any of various dark-fruited as distinguished from blue-fruited blueberries)

farkleberry; sparkleberry; Vaccinium arboreum (shrub or small tree of eastern United States having black inedible berries)

low-bush blueberry; low blueberry; Vaccinium angustifolium; Vaccinium pennsylvanicum (low-growing deciduous shrub of northeastern North America having flowers in compact racemes and bearing sweet dark blue berries)

rabbit-eye blueberry; rabbiteye; rabbiteye blueberry; Vaccinium ashei (shrub of southeastern United States grown commercially especially for canning industry)

dwarf bilberry; dwarf blueberry; Vaccinium caespitosum (low-growing tufted deciduous shrub of northern and alpine North America having pink to coral-red flowers followed by sweet blue berries)

high-bush blueberry; swamp blueberry; tall bilberry; Vaccinium corymbosum (high-growing deciduous shrub of eastern North America bearing edible blueish to blackish berries with a distinct bloom; source of most cultivated blueberries)

evergreen blueberry; Vaccinium myrsinites (shrub of the eastern United States having shining evergreen leaves and bluish-black fruit)

evergreen huckleberry; Vaccinium ovatum (stiff bushy evergreen shrub of western North America having sour black berries and glossy green foliage used in floral arrangements)

bilberry; mountain blue berry; thin-leaved bilberry; Viccinium membranaceum (erect blueberry of western United States having solitary flowers and somewhat sour berries)

bilberry; blaeberry; Viccinium myrtillus; whinberry; whortleberry (erect European blueberry having solitary flowers and blue-black berries)

bog bilberry; bog whortleberry; moor berry; Vaccinium uliginosum alpinum (an evergreen shrub with leathery leaves)

dryland berry; dryland blueberry; Vaccinium pallidum (low deciduous shrub of the eastern United States bearing dark blue sweet berries)

grouse-berry; grouse whortleberry; grouseberry; Vaccinium scoparium (shrub of northwestern North America bearing red berries)

deerberry; squaw huckleberry; Vaccinium stamineum (small branching blueberry common in marshy areas of the eastern United States having greenish or yellowish unpalatable berries reputedly eaten by deer)

Holonyms ("blueberry bush" is a member of...):

genus Vaccinium; Vaccinium (evergreen or deciduous berry-bearing shrubs of northern hemisphere: cranberries; blueberries)