Definitions for crowberries

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crowberries crow·ber·ry

Spelling: [kroh-ber-ee, -buh-ree]

IPA: /ˈkroʊˌbɛr i, -bə ri/

Crowberries is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 393 anagrams from letters in crowberries (bceeiorrrsw).

Definitions for crowberries

noun

1. the black or reddish berry of a heathlike, evergreen shrub, Empetrum nigrum, of northern regions.
2. the plant itself.
3. any of certain other fruits or the plants bearing similar berries, as the bearberry.

Origin of crowberries

1590-1600; crow¹ + berry, probably translation of German Krähenbeere

Examples for crowberries

Galway, from a caterpillar found at a bog in the vicinity, where crowberry grows abundantly.

The crowberry is very abundant about Fort Churchill and northward.

Bishop John taught the people to prepare wine from the crowberry (krkiberium), as he himself had been instructed by King Sverrer.

They seemed to be feeding to some extent on the patches of crowberry and dwarf birch.