DEERBERRY

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Small branching blueberry common in marshy areas of the eastern United States having greenish or yellowish unpalatable berries reputedly eaten by deer

Synonyms:

deerberry; squaw huckleberry; Vaccinium stamineum

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("deerberry" is a kind of...):

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

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