arctostaphylos uva-ursi

Questions about arctostaphylos uva-ursi

What does arctostaphylos uva-ursi mean?

arctostaphylos uva-ursi means "evergreen mat-forming shrub of North America and northern Eurasia having small white flowers and red berries; leaves turn red in autumn".

What is another word for arctostaphylos uva-ursi?

Close synonyms include common bearberry, red bearberry, wild cranberry, mealberry, hog cranberry. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is arctostaphylos uva-ursi a common word?

arctostaphylos uva-ursi is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.