Vaccinium angustifolium
- noun
- Specialized
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Vaccinium angustifolium
- The fields were covered with Vaccinium angustifolium, offering a rich harvest of wild blueberries each summer.
Examples
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The Vaccinium angustifolium is known for its sweet berries.
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I found some Vaccinium angustifolium bushes in the forest.
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Researchers study Vaccinium angustifolium for its antioxidant-rich berries.
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Wild bears in the region often feed on Vaccinium angustifolium during berry season.
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The fields were covered with Vaccinium angustifolium, offering a rich harvest of wild blueberries each summer.
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Wild bears in the region often feed on Vaccinium angustifolium during berry season.
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Researchers study Vaccinium angustifolium for its antioxidant-rich berries.
Synonyms
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1.0
A plant that makes small blue berries you can eat
A small low shrub with sweet dark blue berries
A low bush in northeastern forests that makes small sweet dark blue berries
A low-growing shrub that has sweet dark blue berries in small groups
A low bush that loses its leaves and has dark blue sweet berries like small wild blueberries
How Sweet
- Specialized
- US
1
7.5
- Specialized
1
7.4
28
1.3
Surface Forms
Morphology
Vaccinium + angustifolium
The genus name Vaccinium clearly signals a blueberry/cranberry shrub, so part of the meaning is compositional. However angustifolium is a Latin species epithet (not a known English word here) and is unlikely to be recognisable to a B1 learner, so the specific common-name sense 'lowbush blueberry' cannot be fully derived without specialized botanical knowledge.
Etymology
Vaccinium angustifolium comes from Latin and tells you what the plant is like. Vaccinium was an old word for wild 'berries', and angusti + folium mean 'narrow' and 'leaf', so the name says 'a berry with narrow leaves' and fits the lowbush blueberry.