Definition of Bilbery
Bil"ber*ry (&?;), n.; pl.
Bilberries (&?;). [Cf. Dan. böllebær
bilberry, where bölle is perh. akin to E. ball.]
1. (Bot.) The European whortleberry
(Vaccinium myrtillus); also, its edible bluish black
fruit.
There pinch the maids as blue as bilberry.
Shak.
2. (Bot.) Any similar plant or its fruit;
esp., in America, the species Vaccinium myrtilloides, V.
cæspitosum and V. uliginosum.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- A shrub of the genus Vaccinium that bears berries.
- The berry borne by this shrub.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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