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HIGH-BUSH BLUEBERRY
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
High-growing deciduous shrub of eastern North America bearing edible blueish to blackish berries with a distinct bloom; source of most cultivated blueberries
Synonyms:
high-bush blueberry; swamp blueberry; tall bilberry; Vaccinium corymbosum
Classified under:
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)