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Meanings of bearberry in English

Shrubby tree of the Pacific coast of the United States; yields cascara sagrada.

Deciduous shrub of southeastern and central United States.

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Bearberries (indigenous kinnickinnick) are three species of dwarf shrubs in the genus Arctostaphylos.

Usage of bearberry in English
1
It was a short walk over the low dunes to the tangle of bearberry bushes.
Amagansett
2
The juice of bearberries gives them a bright red.
The Drama of the Forests: Romance and Adventure
3
Bearberries grew in profusion everywhere.
Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska
4
In the immediate vicinity were also nuts, high-bush cranberries, bearberries, hard small apples, starchy potatolike roots, and edible ferns.
The Clan of the Cave Bear
Bearberry through the time