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crowberry en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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• /ˈkɹəʊbəɹɪ/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From crow + berry; probably a calque of German Krähenbeere. Apparently so-called due to birds' fondness for the fruit. Yet the dark color (compare Old Norse blár (“blue-black, like a raven's sheen”)) may be the main or another factor; compare Inuktitut paurngaq (“crowberry”) (allegedly meaning "which looks like soot").

Meanings

1. Empetrum; a small genus of dwarf evergreen shrubs that bear edible fruit.
2. Empetrum; a small genus of dwarf evergreen shrubs that bear edible fruit. ▸ Empetrum nigrum; a species of crowberry.
   • Black crowberry. Empetrum nigrum. Crowberry Family. Fruit. — The black drupe is berrylike, globular, and incloses six to nine seedlike nutlets with a seed in each. The calyx is at the base and the stigma is at the apex. The drupes are solitary in the leaf axils. They are juicy, acid, edible, and serve as food for the Arctic birds. 1905, Maude Gridley Peterson, How to Know Wild Fruits: A Guide to Plants When Not in Flower by Means of Fruit and Leaf, Macmillan, page 202:
3. A fruit of this plant.

Forms

Deriveds

red crowberry

Synonyms

crakeberry · mossberry · crakeberry

Translations (56)

fo svarber (fruit) · ro vuietoare (the genus Empetrum) · es murtilla (fruit) · no krekling (the species Empetrum nigrum) · ckt ԓыгоонъыԓгын (the genus Empetrum) · da revling (the species Empetrum nigrum) · fi variksenmarja (the species Empetrum nigrum) · ru ворони́ка (fruit) · da almindelig revling (the species Empetrum nigrum) · fr camarine (the genus Empetrum) · sv kråkbär (the species Empetrum nigrum) · nl kraaiheide (the species Empetrum nigrum) · ru водяни́ка (fruit) · gd dearc-fithich (fruit) · ro vuietoare (the species Empetrum nigrum) · cy llus y brain (the species Empetrum nigrum) · taa dotron' jega' (fruit) · cy creiglus (the species Empetrum nigrum) · tr karga üzümü (the genus Empetrum) · fo berlyngur (the genus Empetrum) · taa dotron' jega' (the genus Empetrum) · de Krähenbeere (the genus Empetrum) · pl bażyna (the genus Empetrum) · cy creiglus (the genus Empetrum) · se čáhppesmuorji (fruit) · taa dotron' jega' (the species Empetrum nigrum) · is krækiber (fruit) · moe assimin (fruit) · ru ши́кша (the genus Empetrum) · non krækiber (the genus Empetrum) · crj ᐊᔅᒌᒥᓈᓐᐦ (the species Empetrum nigrum) · cs šicha černá (the species Empetrum nigrum) · cs šicha (the genus Empetrum) · izh sikamarja (the genus Empetrum) · sv kråkbär (the genus Empetrum) · fr camarine noire (the species Empetrum nigrum) · gd dearc-fhìona (fruit) · fr camarine (fruit) · pl bagnisko (the genus Empetrum) · sms čuõ´mmjõš (the species Empetrum nigrum) · pl bażyna czarna (the species Empetrum nigrum) · cmn 岩高蘭 /岩高兰 (the species Empetrum nigrum) · ru ворони́ка (the genus Empetrum) · no krekling (the genus Empetrum) · fo svartber (fruit) · fi variksenmarja (fruit) · cy creiglus (fruit) · bg черен емпетрум (the species Empetrum nigrum) · tr karga üzümü (fruit) · ru водяни́ка (the genus Empetrum) · fo berjalyngur (the genus Empetrum) · de Krähenbeere (fruit) · cy llus y brain (fruit) · ems augyaq (the species Empetrum nigrum) · da revling (the genus Empetrum) · fi variksenmarja (the genus Empetrum)