Definition of Vaccinium myrtillus. Meaning of Vaccinium myrtillus. Synonyms of Vaccinium myrtillus

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Definition of Vaccinium myrtillus

Vaccinium Myrtillus
Whortleberry Whor"tle*ber`ry, n. [AS. wyrtil a small shrub (dim. of wyrt wort) + E. berry. See Wort, and cf. Huckleberry, Hurtleberry.] (Bot.) (a) In England, the fruit of Vaccinium Myrtillus; also, the plant itself. See Bilberry, 1. (b) The fruit of several shrubby plants of the genus Gaylussacia; also, any one of these plants. See Huckleberry.
Vaccinium myrtillus
Bilberry Bil"ber*ry, n.; pl. Bilberries. [Cf. Dan. b["o]lleb[ae]r bilberry, where b["o]lle is perh. akin to E. ball.] 1. (Bot.) The European whortleberry (Vaccinium myrtillus); also, its edible bluish black fruit. There pinch the maids as blue as bilberry. --Shak. 2. (Bot.) Any similar plant or its fruit; esp., in America, the species Vaccinium myrtilloides, V. c[ae]spitosum and V. uliginosum.

Meaning of Vaccinium myrtillus from wikipedia

- Vaccinium myrtillus or European blueberry is a holarctic species of shrub with edible fruit of blue color, known by the common names bilberry, blaeberry...
- padifolium – Madeira blueberry Vaccinium smallii Sect. Koreanum Vaccinium koreanum – Korean blueberry Sect. Myrtillus (including sect. Macropelma) – bilberries...
- North American blueberries. The species most often referred to is Vaccinium myrtillus L., but the term describes several other closely related species...
- Vaccinium uliginosum (bog bilberry, bog blueberry, northern bilberry or western blueberry) is a Eurasian and North American flowering plant in the heath...
- genus Vaccinium: Vaccinium myrtillus, European bilberry or blue whortleberry Vaccinium vitis-idaea, lingonberry or red whortleberry Vaccinium uliginosum...
- blue-fruited species of Vaccinium: Vaccinium koreanum (Korean blueberry) Vaccinium myrtillus (bilberry or European blueberry) Vaccinium uliginosum (bog bilberry/blueberry...
- berries.[citation needed] Vaccinium oxycoccos is similar. Hybrids between Vaccinium vitis-idaea and V. myrtillus, named Vaccinium × intermedium Ruthe, are...
- blueberry (section Cyanococcus of the genus Vaccinium), but from the related but distinct bilberry, Vaccinium myrtillus, which grows in the wild throughout Scandinavia...
- heather (Calluna vulgaris), crowberry (Empetrum nigrum), bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus) and hare's-tail cotton gr**** (Eriophorum ****tum) being dominant...
- type of raspberry native to Asia and introduced to North America Vaccinium myrtillus, a fruit also called Bilberry This page is an index of articles on...