snowberry
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English
Etymology
snow + berry, from the snow-white colour.
Pronunciation
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Noun
snowberry (plural snowberries)
- A shrub bearing white berries:
- now especially of the genus Symphoricarpos
- also Gaultheria, especially Gaultheria oppositifolia, and
- (Australia) Schizomeria ovata
- The fruit of shrubs of these genera.
Derived terms
- common snowberry (Symphoricarpos albus)
- creeping snowberry (Symphoricarpos mollis, Symphoricarpos hesperius, also Gaultheria hispidula)
- desert snowberry (Symphoricarpos longiflorus)
- Himalayan snowberry (Gaultheria trichophylla
- littleleaf snowberry (Symphoricarpos microphyllus)
- McKittrick's snowberry (Symphoricarpos guadalupensis)
- Mexican snowberry (Symphoricarpos mexicanus)
- mountain snowberry (Symphoricarpos oreophilus)
- Palmer's snowberry (Symphoricarpos palmeri)
- roundleaf snowberry (Symphoricarpos rotundifolius)
- sharpleaf snowberry (Symphoricarpos acutus)
- snowberry clearwing (Hemaris diffinis)
- trailing snowberry (Symphoricarpos hesperius)
- western snowberry (Symphoricarpos occidentalis)
- West Indian snowberry (Chiococca alba)
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