vaccinium

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

noun evergreen or deciduous berry-bearing shrubs of northern hemisphere: cranberries; blueberries

Borrowed from translingual Vaccinium, itself borrowed from Latin vaccīnium.

Puolukka Vaccinium vitis idaea (Red whortleberry)--Like a small cranberry. — Through Finland in Carts, Mrs. (Ethel) Alec-Tweedie
Some have taken this to refer to the "red whortleberry," the botanical name of which is Vaccinium vitis Idoea; but as that is not a climber, it is more probably that the common vine is here meant. — The Lady of the Lake, Walter Scott
[105] Not that rich and costly purple in which the Roman nobility shone, but some ordinary material, such as the vaccinium, which Pliny says was used by the Gauls as a purple dye for the garments of the slaves, (xvi. — The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus, Cornelius Tacitus

genus Vaccinium

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