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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

(Bot.)

A trailing plant of the heath family (

Arctostaphylos uva-ursi

), having leaves which are tonic and astringent, and glossy red berries of which bears are said to be fond.

bearberry ‎(plural bearberries)

Any of three dwarf shrubs of the genus Arctostaphylos, which principally grow in arctic and subarctic regions and bear edible berries.
- 1952, Farley Mowat, People of the Deer, Key Porter 2005, p. 26:
  Sometimes she scrabbled through the drifts on hilltops and found a few wizened bearberries or a handful of rock-tripe, a kind of moss.
1. Arctostaphylos uva-ursi, the common bearberry.
Arbutus menziesii.

the genus Arctostaphylos

the species Arctostaphylos uva-ursi