Definitions for crowberry

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crowberry crow·ber·ry

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

IPA: /ˈkroʊˌbɛr i, -bə ri/

Crowberry is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 140 anagrams from letters in crowberry (bceorrrwy).

Definitions for crowberry

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 crowberry

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

Examples for crowberry

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

The crowberry is very abundant about Fort Churchill and northward.

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

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