black bearberry

1. 1.

   deciduous creeping shrub bright red in autumn having black or blue-black berries; alpine and circumpolar

   Synonymsalpine bearberryArctostaphylos alpina

   Broaderbearberry

Questions about black bearberry

What does black bearberry mean?

black bearberry means "deciduous creeping shrub bright red in autumn having black or blue-black berries; alpine and circumpolar".

What is another word for black bearberry?

Close synonyms include alpine bearberry, Arctostaphylos alpina. 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 black bearberry a common word?

black bearberry 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.