(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.
Myrtle
Definition:
(n.) A species of the genus Myrtus, especially Myrtus communis. The common myrtle has a shrubby, upright stem, eight or ten feet high. Its branches form a close, full head, thickly covered with ovate or lanceolate evergreen leaves. It has solitary axillary white or rosy flowers, followed by black several-seeded berries. The ancients considered it sacred to Venus. The flowers, leaves, and berries are used variously in perfumery and as a condiment, and the beautifully mottled wood is used in turning.
Example Sentences:
(1) If the majority of relevant tree pollens are to be included in a diagnostic or therapeutic programme in Western Sweden it should contain birch, alder, hazel, beech and bog-myrtle allergens.
(2) Bratton said that after the shooting Brinsley fled into the Myrtle-Willoughby G-train station, where, on the westbound platform, he shot himself before officers could reach him.
(3) Three experiments on long-term isolation and educational deprivation of infants were performed 50 years ago by Myrtle McGraw and by Wayne and Marsena Dennis.
(4) Then they get the opportunity to make some tasty foods including wattleseed damper, kangaroo kebabs or sample lemon myrtle biscuits.
(5) Whether viewed as a museum piece from a less sexually expressive age, or a timeless English romance, or alternatively as a key gay text, as Richard Dyer suggests in his BFI Film Classics monograph ('the subject matter - forbidden love in ordinary lives - makes an obvious appeal to gay readers'), Brief Encounter is iconic: the clipped voices, the Banbury cakes, characters actually called Dolly and Myrtle.
(6) Romney and McCain are due there tonight, to prepare for a debate Thursday at Myrtle Beach.
(7) The granite rocks glow in shades of yellow, pink and orange, with the scent of juniper and myrtle all around.
(8) That was not the case, as best as I can remember.” At the Tuesday rally in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Trump ridiculed Kovaleski, telling supporters: “Now the poor guy.
(9) He then fled to the westbound platform of the Myrtle-Willoughby G-train station, where he shot himself once in the head.
(10) In January 1989, The Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital, Myrtle Street, moved to the Alder Hey branch site.
(11) Application of the age-adjusted target heart rate criterion recommended from Scandinavia and Myrtle Beach to patients with indeterminate results due to failure to reach target heart rate resulted in six false negative tests and lowered sensitivity.
(12) By the Victorian era, Art and Myrtle Mumby live in Larklight, a ramshackle old house that orbits in the deeps beyond the Moon, with British Standard Gravity to keep their feet on the ground.
(13) At the most recent Republican TV debate in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, on Monday night, Paul even defended his position that the killing of Osama bin Laden was against international law.
(14) Positive reactions, often of high intensity, were most often found with birch, alder, bog-myrtle, beech and hazel allergens whereas oak, aspen, linden, elm, sallow, maple and poplar allergens more often gave negative or only weak positive test results.
(15) One hundred soil samples from sites in North, Centre and West of Spain were examined for their capacity to induce nodules in alder (Alnus glutinosa) and bog myrtle (Myrica gale).