(n.) The European whortleberry (Vaccinium myrtillus); also, its edible bluish black fruit.
(n.) Any similar plant or its fruit; esp., in America, the species Vaccinium myrtilloides, V. caespitosum and V. uliginosum.
Example Sentences:
(1) IdB 1027 is an anthocyanidin pigment occurring in bilberries.
(2) The rowan’s red berries, meanwhile, are out of reach (and unpalatable when raw) but there are alternatives lower down: redcurrants, bilberries, black crowberries and wild raspberries.
(3) The current status of research on the application of ionizing radiation for improving the storage of temperate fruits, i.e., apple, pear, peach, nectarine, apricot, cherry, plum, strawberry, bilberry, cranberry, raspberry, and black currant, is reviewed.
(4) The aqueous extracts of ledum, motherwort, celandine, black currant, cowberry and bilberry inactivated TBE virus practically completely, and those of St. John's wort, pot marigold, tansy, chamomile, milfoil, and inula only partially.
(5) The bark and the tips of conifer twigs, twigs of oak and mountain ash, bilberry and heather plants, i. e. perennial plants resp.
(6) All that remained was a skinny carcass of bedraggled wet feathers on a patch of bilberries, the tag’s antenna sticking into the air.
Blaeberry
Definition:
(n.) The bilberry.
Example Sentences:
(1) Blaeberries (or blueberries) and bracken line the path which winds upwards, and on top of the little hill people come and tie rags to the trees to wish away illness and misfortune.