Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A creeping herbaceous plant (Cornus canadensis) chiefly of northern North America, having clusters of scarlet fruit and inconspicuous greenish flowers surrounded by four white, petallike bracts.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A common name of the dwarf cornel, Cornus Canadensis, on account of its dense clusters of bright-red berries.
- noun The fruit of the Rubus saxatilis.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) The dwarf cornel (
Cornus Canadensis ), which bears a dense cluster of bright red, edible berries.
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- noun A common name for two species of
dwarf dogwoods : Cornus canadensis - Canadian or Eastern Bunchberry; Cornus suecica - Eurasian or Northern Bunchberry. - noun The fruit of either of these plants.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun creeping perennial herb distinguished by red berries and clustered leaf whorls at the tips of shoots; Greenland to Alaska
Etymologies
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Examples
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Cornus canadensis, commonly known as the bunchberry dogwood, relies on stored elastic energy to shoot pollen from its stamen in less than 0.5 milliseconds.
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Cornus canadensis, commonly known as the bunchberry dogwood, relies on stored elastic energy to shoot pollen from its stamen in less than 0.5 milliseconds.
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That and this chezmax 2010
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LICHTMAN: One of the researches said that, you know, she'd seen the bunchberry plant many, many times, and then eventually said, what's going on here?
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More blue flag, more bunchberry, may have seen trout lily in the forest.
jhetley: Friday roadkill report jhetley 2010
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Jun. 2nd, 2008 at 6: 29 PM bunchberry successfully defended her PhD (from all comers) and she and her spouse, morgan_starfire threw a wonderful party to celebrate.
Congratulations, Sue! bunchberry 2008
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First Queen Anne's lace*, bog rose, and bunchberry blooming.
The return of Rat jhetley 2009
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And a couple of bunchberry flowers, their timing all off.
To ride or not to ride, that is the question jhetley 2007
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On the way we passed great beds of blossoming cloudberries, which with blossoms of the bunchberry, the Labrador tea, and the pale laurel, made up the list of flowers found so far.
Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador Mina Benson Hubbard 1913
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Do not mistake the bunchberry for the wintergreen.
On the Trail An Outdoor Book for Girls Lina Beard 1888
slumry commented on the word bunchberry
Another beloved flower of mine. They are low-growing, mat-forming dogwoods.
July 12, 2007
reesetee commented on the word bunchberry
Beautiful! I've never heard of them before.
July 12, 2007
slumry commented on the word bunchberry
They are enchanting. My father picked one for me once and I pressed it and carried it around in my first wallet. I simply could not believe that a dogwood could be so tiny.
July 12, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word bunchberry
see also bunchberries
May 6, 2008
bilby commented on the word bunchberry
"Recent rain had left puddles which glinted among the growth of fern and horsetail and bunchberry."
- Susan Madison, 'The Colour Of Hope'.
August 11, 2009