mossberry

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mossberry

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From moss + berry.

noun mossberries

  1. Empetrum nigrum, a species of crowberry. Many kinds of wild fruit gave variety to our diet of fish and birds—red currants and gooseberries, red raspberries and black mossberries, high and low-bush cranberries, and, best of all, the northern blueberries, which grow profusely all over this part of the Yukon.

    Similar: rockberry

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@misc{mossberry_2026,
  title = {mossberry},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/mossberry},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}