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Vaccinium

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Vac`cin´i`um
n.1.(Bot.) A genus of ericaceous shrubs including the various kinds of blueberries and the true cranberries.
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Noun1.Vaccinium - evergreen or deciduous berry-bearing shrubs of northern hemisphere: cranberriesVaccinium - evergreen or deciduous berry-bearing shrubs of northern hemisphere: cranberries; blueberries
genus Vaccinium
dilleniid dicot genus - genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs
Ericaceae, family Ericaceae, heath family - heathers
cranberry - any of numerous shrubs of genus Vaccinium bearing cranberries
blueberry, blueberry bush - any of numerous shrubs of the genus Vaccinium bearing blueberries
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Unlike the vulgar blueberry, Vaccinium myrtillus - also known as the bilberry, European blueberry, blaeberry, whortleberry, bulberry, whinberry (or winberry), trackleberry, huckleberry or (in Ireland) fraughan - is rarely cultivated, but found mainly in the wild, growing on small, wiry shrubs little more than a foot high.
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