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单词 crowberry
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Definition of crowberry in English:

crowberry

nounPlural crowberries ˈkrəʊb(ə)riˈkroʊˌbɛri
  • 1A creeping heather-like dwarf shrub with small leaves and black berries, growing on moorland.

    岩高兰

    Empetrum nigrum, family Empetraceae

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It comprised mostly subalpine ground with tallish heather, blaeberry, and crowberry, with some patches of short heath.
    • Wet meadows have abundant grasses, sedges, and rushes, while low-growing shrubs include black crowberry, mountain cranberry, shrubby cinquefoil, and three dwarf willows.
    • Rarest and most unexpected of those are broom crowberry, a wiry shrub with crowded, quarter-inch-long leaves and black berries, and curly grass, a fern that has small curly leaves that look like immature grass.
    • A faint track through the crowberry scrub led to a rightwards sloping ramp of black slabs which seemed to give way to a series of zig-zags amongst some large blocks.
    1. 1.1 The edible but flavourless black berry of the crowberry.
      岩高兰果
      Example sentencesExamples
      • American Indians of the north-west and Alaska used to gather crowberries for winter food, preserving them by drying or, in Alaska, by placing them with other berries in seal oil.
      • The blaeberries, crowberries, elderberries and stinging nettles, along with the more than 30 types of fungi which he finds in the forest, find their way onto his menu.

Rhymes

snowberry

Definition of crowberry in US English:

crowberry

nounˈkroʊˌbɛriˈkrōˌberē
  • 1A creeping heather-like dwarf shrub with small, needle-shaped leaves and black or reddish berries.

    岩高兰

    Genus Empetrum, family Empetraceae: several species, in particular theblack crowberry (E. nigrum), with pea-sized black berries

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It comprised mostly subalpine ground with tallish heather, blaeberry, and crowberry, with some patches of short heath.
    • A faint track through the crowberry scrub led to a rightwards sloping ramp of black slabs which seemed to give way to a series of zig-zags amongst some large blocks.
    • Rarest and most unexpected of those are broom crowberry, a wiry shrub with crowded, quarter-inch-long leaves and black berries, and curly grass, a fern that has small curly leaves that look like immature grass.
    • Wet meadows have abundant grasses, sedges, and rushes, while low-growing shrubs include black crowberry, mountain cranberry, shrubby cinquefoil, and three dwarf willows.
    1. 1.1 The edible but flavorless berry of the crowberry plant.
      岩高兰果
      Example sentencesExamples
      • American Indians of the north-west and Alaska used to gather crowberries for winter food, preserving them by drying or, in Alaska, by placing them with other berries in seal oil.
      • The blaeberries, crowberries, elderberries and stinging nettles, along with the more than 30 types of fungi which he finds in the forest, find their way onto his menu.
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