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blueberry
CIDE DICTIONARY
blueberry, n. [Cf. Blaeberry.].
The berry of several species of Vaccinium , an ericaceous genus, differing from the American huckleberries in containing numerous minute seeds instead of ten nutlets. The commonest species are Vaccinium Pennsylvanicum and Vaccinium vacillans . Vaccinium corymbosum is the tall blueberry. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
blueberry, n. (pl. -ies)
1 any of several plants of the genus Vaccinium, cultivated for their edible fruit.
2 the small blue-black fruit of these plants.
1 any of several plants of the genus Vaccinium, cultivated for their edible fruit.
2 the small blue-black fruit of these plants.
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