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Meanings of whinberry in English

Erect European blueberry having solitary flowers and blue-black berries.

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Examples for "bilberry"
Examples for "bilberry"
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A sweet bilberry also abounds in some parts of the country.
Three Boys in the Wild North Land
2
From the shadows of the bilberry bushes two stooping figures rushed at him.
The Yukon Trail: A Tale of the North
3
My road wound up and up, the heather and bilberry on either hand.'
Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts
4
Thonolan, you wouldn't turn down a cup of Tamio's wonderful bilberry wine, would you?
The Valley of Horses
5
Helena fell back on the bilberry stalk, to gain time.
Helena
1
The plain is now grown up with poplar, hazle-bush, scrub-oak, and whortleberry.
Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian ...
2
The surface of the island is plentifully overgrown with whortleberry and bayberry bushes.
Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2.
3
Around it were beds of red phlox, red whortleberry bushes, and wild sunflowers.
The Log School-House on the Columbia
4
We dined upon potatoes, corn, carrots, and whortleberry pudding, quite sumptuously.
Memories of Hawthorne
5
For supper, seal-steak, with whortleberry jam, cheese, bread, butter, and coffee.
The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian Antarctic expedition...
1
He flung himself down in a blaeberry-bed, and lay there doggedly, his weak mouth tightly closed.
Tommy and Grizel
2
You may have already been picking and enjoying that most delicious of wild fruits - the bilberry or blaeberry or fraughan.
The Irish Times
3
Up to Blaeberry Tarn, and then home by Holler Beck.
The Squire of Sandal-Side: A Pastoral Romance
4
There you may find shade in summer, and great blaeberries and ripening rowans in the wane of August.
The Half-Hearted
5
The island on which we had encamped was a small rocky one, covered with short heathery-looking shrubs, among which we found thousands of blaeberries.
Hudson Bay
Usage of whinberry in English
1
In England it may be known as the whinberry or wimberry and hurts becomes urts.
The Irish Times
2
A scent of whinberries made her little nostrils dilate with expectation.
The Man-Wolf and Other Tales
3
When you can't get eggs you have blackberries and whinberries.
The Man-Wolf and Other Tales
4
Walked up the mountain, saw great quantities of whinberries; a delightful stream of water near the summit.
A Journey to America in 1834
5
After much trouble about beds we had tea with old bread, butter, plenty of sweets, also whinberries, etc.
A Journey to America in 1834
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BILBERRY (Whortleberry, or Whinberry).
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure