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n. - Tart red berries similar to American cranberries but smaller; Low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries.

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  • It is often called a "cowberry" and is a member of the cranberry family.
  • On the steeper slopes of hummocky ground there were banks of blaeberry and cowberry with a very deep layer of mosses.
  • Ground cover consists of cowberry Vaccinium vitis-idaea (R), bilberry V. myrtillus and reindeer mosses Cladonia spp ..
  • I was fairly stumped about what a cowberry would be, until Wikipedia informed me they're the same thing as lingonberries.
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