HIGH-BUSH BLUEBERRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does high-bush blueberry mean? 

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

1. high-growing deciduous shrub of eastern North America bearing edible blueish to blackish berries with a distinct bloom; source of most cultivated blueberries

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HIGH-BUSH BLUEBERRY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

High-growing deciduous shrub of eastern North America bearing edible blueish to blackish berries with a distinct bloom; source of most cultivated blueberries

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

high-bush blueberry; swamp blueberry; tall bilberry; Vaccinium corymbosum

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

blueberry; blueberry bush (any of numerous shrubs of the genus Vaccinium bearing blueberries)

Meronyms (parts of "high-bush blueberry"):

blueberry (sweet edible dark-blue berries of either low-growing or high-growing blueberry plants)