vaccinium corymbosum

Noun

Synonyms: high-bush blueberry tall bilberry swamp blueberry Vaccinium corymbosum

WordNet 3.0

Noun (1)

high-growing deciduous shrub of eastern North America bearing edible blueish to blackish berries with a distinct bloom; source of most cultivated blueberriesSynonyms: high-bush blueberry tall bilberry swamp blueberry Vaccinium corymbosum

Webster's Dictionary (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]