vaccinium vitis-idaea

Questions about vaccinium vitis-idaea

What does vaccinium vitis-idaea mean?

vaccinium vitis-idaea means "low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries".

What is another word for vaccinium vitis-idaea?

Close synonyms include cowberry, mountain cranberry, lingonberry, lingenberry, lingberry. 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 vaccinium vitis-idaea a common word?

vaccinium vitis-idaea 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.