mountain blueberry
- noun
- US
:
arándano de montaña
- The mountain blueberry thrives at higher elevations where the soil is acidic.
Examples
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Hikers often pick mountain blueberry fruits during late summer in the Rockies.
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The leaves of the mountain blueberry are smaller than those of other blueberry species.
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I found a mountain blueberry bush while hiking.
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The mountain blueberries grow in rocky soil.
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Hikers often pick mountain blueberry fruits during late summer in the Rockies.
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The mountain blueberry thrives at higher elevations where the soil is acidic.
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The leaves of the mountain blueberry are smaller than those of other blueberry species.
Synonyms
A wild blueberry bush with sour berries that grows in western US mountains
A small upright plant like a blueberry that grows in western US mountains and makes sour berries
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound is directly built from 'mountain' (associated with highland habitat) + 'blueberry' (a shrub producing blue berries), so its referent—a type/variety of blueberry that grows in mountainous areas—is easily inferable. This kind of noun compounding to indicate a subtype/location is cross-linguistically common, making the meaning transparent to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
Mountain blueberry may come from the simple picture of a blueberry growing on a mountain side that early walkers and settlers found. So the name now means the small bush with somewhat 'sour' edible berries that grows high in the mountains.
