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whortleberry
whortleberry (ˈhwɜːt(ə)lbɛrɪ) Also (8 whirtle-), 8–9 wortleberry. [South-western dial. form of hurtleberry: cf. whort. Used by Lyte, a Somerset man, in his translation of Dodoens' Herbal, whence app. by later writers on plants, so as to have become at length the usual ‘book-name’.] The blue-black fr...
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Whortleberry
Whortleberry may refer to the berries of several plants of genus Vaccinium:
Vaccinium myrtillus, European bilberry or blue whortleberry
Vaccinium vitis-idaea , lingonberry or red whortleberry
Vaccinium uliginosum, bog whortleberry/bilberry
See also
Bilberry
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whortleberry
whortleberry/ˈwɜ:tlberɪ; ?@ ˈhwɜ:rtlberɪ; `hwətlˌbɛrɪ/ n= bilberry.
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Huckleberry Island
Huckleberry Island (or Whortleberry Island) is an island in Long Island Sound and part of New Rochelle, New York.
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hurtleberry
hurtleberry (ˈhɜːt(ə)lbɛrɪ) Also 5 hurtil-, 6 hurtel-, hirtle-, 7 heurtle-; see also whortleberry. [app. a derivative of hurt n.3, q.v.] The fruit of Vaccinium Myrtillus, or the shrub itself; the whortleberry or bilberry; also applied to other species of Vaccinium, and to the allied American genus G...
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Vaccinium myrtillus
or European blueberry is a holarctic species of shrub with edible fruit of blue color, known by the common names bilberry, blaeberry, wimberry, and whortleberry It is more precisely called common bilberry or blue whortleberry to distinguish it from other Vaccinium relatives.
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whimberry
whimberry local. (ˈhwɪmbərɪ) Forms: 1 winberiᵹe, 5 wynneberie, 7 win(ne)berry, 8 wind-berry, 9 whinberry, w(h)imberry. [Assimilated f. whinberry, alteration of winberry (representing, with normal vowel-shortening, OE. w{iacu}nberiᵹe; cf. wineberry) by association with whin1.] The bilberry or whortle...
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Bilberry
The bilberry (especially Vaccinium myrtillus) is generally known as blaeberry in Scottish and Northern English regional dialects, and whortleberry in (bog bilberry, bog blueberry, bog whortleberry, bog huckleberry, northern bilberry, ground hurts)
Vaccinium cespitosum Michx.
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whortle
whortle (ˈhwɜːt(ə)l) Also 7 wortle: see also hurtle n.2 [Short for whortleberry.] = whortleberry.1597 [see hurtle n.2]. 1620 Venner Via Recta vii. 131 The people vse to eat the Wortles in creame and milke. 1655 Moufet & Bennet Health's Improv. 219 Fen-berries..are of like temper and faculty with our...
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Luzula hitchcockii
Other understory species occurring with the rush include grouse whortleberry (Vaccinium scoparium), Sitka valerian (Valeriana sitchensis), mountain arnica
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whort
whort dial. (hwɜːt) Also 6–7 whorte, 7 whurt, 9 wort. [South-western dial. form of hurt n.2 (cf. whoam for home, whole for earlier hole, and whortleberry).] = whortleberry. Also attrib. Hence ˈwhorting vbl. n., gathering whortleberries.1578 Lyte Dodoens vi. xi. 670 There be two sortes of Whortes, an...
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Vaccinium
The fruits of many species are eaten by humans and some are of commercial importance, including the cranberry, blueberry, bilberry (whortleberry), lingonberry Vitis-idaea
Vaccinium vitis-idaea L. – partridgeberry, cowberry, redberry, red whortleberry, or lingonberry (northern North America and Eurasia)
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Vaccinium scoparium
Vaccinium scoparium is a species of huckleberry known by the common names grouse whortleberry, grouseberry, and littleleaf huckleberry.
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bilberry
bilberry, billberry (ˈbɪlbɛrɪ) Also 7 bilbery. [App. of Norse origin; cf. Da. böllebær, f. bölle (used separately for bilberry) + bær berry. (The origin of Da. bölle is unknown; the suggestion that it is:—ON. bǫllr ball is phonetically improbable, since this gives Sw. boll, Da. bold.)] 1. The fruit ...
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Vaccinium arctostaphylos
Vaccinium arctostaphylos or Caucasian whortleberry is a species of shrub with edible fruit of blue color.
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