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/ˈbɛəb(ə)ɹi/ · noun
Any of four dwarf shrubs of formerly all members of the genus Arctostaphylos, three now assigned to genus Arctous, which principally grow in arctic and subarctic regions and bear edible berries..
Sometimes she scrabbled through the drifts on hilltops and found a few wizened bearberries or a handful of rock-tripe, a kind of moss.
Use bear berry when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Bear berry means Any of four dwarf shrubs of formerly all members of the genus Arctostaphylos, three now assigned to genus Arctous, which principally grow in arctic and subarctic regions and bear edible berries..
Common synonyms include bear's-grape, uva ursi, winterberry, cascara buckthorn.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Sometimes she scrabbled through the drifts on hilltops and found a few wizened bearberries or a handful of rock-tripe, a kind of moss.
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