Blueberry

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Blueberry \Blue"berry\, n. [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.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  blueberry
       n 1: any of numerous shrubs of the genus Vaccinium bearing
            blueberries [syn: {blueberry bush}]
       2: sweet edible dark-blue berries of either low-growing or
          high-growing blueberry plants