bilberry
noun/ˈbɪlb(ə)ɹɪ/
Etymology Probably of North Germanic origin (Danish bøllebær), from Old Norse bolli (Proto-Germanic *bullǭ) + ber.
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Vaccinium myrtillus, the wild European blueberry of the cowberry family.
- Among the pines grew rowans hung with scarlet berries, and bilberry bushes whose leaves would be fair game for white moth caterpillars in spring.2020 February 25, Christopher de Bellaigue, “The end of farming?”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 06 Jan 2026:
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The shrub of the above-mentioned plant.
- Derived terms
- bilberried, bilberrying, bog bilberry, dwarf bilberry, mountain bilberry, northern bilberry