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Uva vs Bearberry - What's the difference?

uva | bearberry |

As an adjective uva

is good.

As a noun bearberry is

any of three dwarf shrubs of the genus arctostaphylos , which principally grow in arctic and subarctic regions and bear edible berries.

uva

English

Noun

  • (botany) A small pulpy or juicy fruit containing several seeds and having a thin skin, such as a grape.
    • (Webster 1913) ----

    bearberry

    English

    Noun

    (bearberries)
  • Any of three dwarf shrubs of the genus Arctostaphylos , which principally grow in arctic and subarctic regions and bear edible berries.
  • * 1952 , Farley Mowat, People of the Deer , Key Porter 2005, p. 26:
    • Sometimes she scrabbled through the drifts on hilltops and found a few wizened bearberries or a handful of rock-tripe, a kind of moss.
  • Arctostaphylos uva-ursi , the .

    • Derived terms

    * mountain bearberry (Arctostaphylos alpina )

    External links

    * ("bearberry" on Wikipedia) * (Arctostaphylos) * *