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Webster 1913 Edition


Blueberry

Blue′berry

,
Noun.
[Cf.
Blaeberry
.]
(Bot.)
The berry of several species of
Vaccinium
, an ericaceous genus, differing from the American huckleberries in containing numerous minute seeds instead of ten nutlets. The commonest species are
Vaccinium Pennsylvanicum
and
Vaccinium vacillans
.
Vaccinium corymbosum
is the tall blueberry.