VACCINIUM CORYMBOSUM

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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

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Vaccinium corymbosum" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (parts of "Vaccinium corymbosum"):

blueberry (sweet edible dark-blue berries of either low-growing or high-growing blueberry plants)

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