bear's grape

Questions about bear's grape

What does bear's grape mean?

bear's grape 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 bear's grape?

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 bear's grape a common word?

bear's grape 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.