(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.
Whortleberry
Definition:
(n.) The fruit of several shrubby plants of the genus Gaylussacia; also, any one of these plants. See Huckleberry.
(n.) In England, the fruit of Vaccinium Myrtillus; also, the plant itself. See Bilberry, 1.
Example Sentences:
(1) The effect of iron(II), tin(II), aluminium(III), and chromium(III) on the properties of red whortleberry, blackcurrant, and red beet juices was followed during storage for 10 months at 5 degrees C. The colour and pH changes were studied, and the precipitates formed were weighed and their metal contents assayed.
(2) Precipitation is enhanced in red whortleberry juice only by tin, and in blackcurrant juice by tin and iron.
(3) Liquid chromatographic methodology for determination of vitamin C and organic acids in different fruits (whortleberry, blackberry, red currant, black currant, raspberry, babaco, feijoa, kiwano, passion fruit, red and yellow tamarillos, medlar, and persimmon) cultivated in Galicia, Spain are developed.