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FOXBERRY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries
Synonyms:
cowberry; foxberry; lingberry; lingenberry; lingonberry; mountain cranberry; Vaccinium vitis-idaea
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("foxberry" is a kind of...):
cranberry (any of numerous shrubs of genus Vaccinium bearing cranberries)
Meronyms (parts of "foxberry"):
cowberry; lingonberry; lowbush cranberry; mountain cranberry (tart red berries similar to American cranberries but smaller)