highbush blueberry

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a tall, moisture-loving North American blueberry shrub (Vaccinium corymbosum), the principal source of cultivated blueberries

   Highbush blueberry grows naturally beside many eastern ponds and swamps.

2. 2
   noun

   the edible blue fruit of this shrub

   The farm sells highbush blueberries throughout midsummer.

A compound of highbush, 'forming a tall or erect bush,' and blueberry. High blueberry is an older shortened common name for the same plant; highbush blueberry became the usual modern form and distinguishes it from lowbush blueberries. The name is recorded in American English from the mid-nineteenth century.

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