What does mossberry mean?
Mossberry means Empetrum nigrum, a species of crowberry..
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Empetrum nigrum, a species of crowberry..
Many kinds of wild fruit gave variety to our diet of fish and birds—red currants and gooseberries, red raspberries and black mossberries, high and low-bush cranberries, and, best of all, the northern blueberries, which grow profusely all over this part of the Yukon.
Small black mossberries, indigenous to the Aleutian Islands, are a favorite of the Aleuts, but almost any wild berry will do, as well as garden variety currants, cooked and sweetened cranberries, and, in Alaska, any variety of tundra fruit.
She saw a patch of mossberries, the shiny black berries nearly hidden in a tangle of heather, and stopped to pick them.
Use mossberry when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Mossberry means Empetrum nigrum, a species of crowberry..
Common synonyms include rockberry.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Many kinds of wild fruit gave variety to our diet of fish and birds—red currants and gooseberries, red raspberries and black mossberries, high and low-bush cranberries, and, best of all, the northern blueberries, which grow profusely all over this part of the Yukon.
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