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lingonberry

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lin·gon·ber·ry  (lngn-br)
n.
See cowberry.

[Swedish lingon, a kind of berry + berry.]
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Noun1.lingonberrylingonberry - low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries
lowbush cranberry, mountain cranberry, cowberry, lingonberry - tart red berries similar to American cranberries but smaller
cranberry - any of numerous shrubs of genus Vaccinium bearing cranberries
2.lingonberry - tart red berries similar to American cranberries but smaller
berry - any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits; used as desserts or in making jams and jellies and preserves
cowberry, foxberry, lingberry, lingenberry, lingonberry, mountain cranberry, Vaccinium vitis-idaea - low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries


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The buildings exhibited include Heikkinen & Komonen's cultural centre in Kuhmo which has an asymmetrically sloping turf roof growing heather and lingonberry, the Karsamaki shingle church by Anssi Lassila, built using eighteenth-century methods, a luminous chapel in Turku by Matti Sanaksenaho with a timber structure clad in copper, and the lookout tower in Helsinki by Ville Hara composed of a strong but light meshed shell structure of timber strips (AR December 2003).
For the pear and lingonberry marmalade: Squeeze excess water from gelatin and place in saucepan with all ingredients except liqueur.
In the Finnish study, 50 young women who had previously been treated for a urinary tract infection were given about four tablespoons of a mixture of cranberry and lingonberry juice concentrate every day (lingonberries, which are in the cranberry family, are popular in Scandinavia).
 
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