ARCTOSTAPHYLOS UVA-URSI

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Meaning:

Evergreen mat-forming shrub of North America and northern Eurasia having small white flowers and red berries; leaves turn red in autumn

Synonyms:

Arctostaphylos uva-ursi; bear's grape; common bearberry; creashak; hog cranberry; mealberry; mountain box; red bearberry; sand berry; sandberry; wild cranberry

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Arctostaphylos uva-ursi" is a kind of...):

bearberry (chiefly evergreen subshrubs of northern to Arctic areas)

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