bearberry

Plural: bearberries

Noun

• shrubby tree of the Pacific coast of the United States; yields cascara sagrada
• deciduous shrub of southeastern and central United States
• chiefly evergreen subshrubs of northern to Arctic areas
• Any of four dwarf shrubs of formerly all members of the genus Arctostaphylos, three now assigned to genus Arctous, which principally grow in arctic and subarctic regions and bear edible berries.
• Any of four dwarf shrubs of formerly all members of the genus Arctostaphylos, three now assigned to genus Arctous, which principally grow in arctic and subarctic regions and bear edible berries.
• common bearberry (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi).
• Any of four dwarf shrubs of formerly all members of the genus Arctostaphylos, three now assigned to genus Arctous, which principally grow in arctic and subarctic regions and bear edible berries.
• alpine bearberry, mountain bearberry, black bearberry (Arctous alpina, syn. Arctostaphylos alpinus)
• Any of four dwarf shrubs of formerly all members of the genus Arctostaphylos, three now assigned to genus Arctous, which principally grow in arctic and subarctic regions and bear edible berries.
• red bearberry (Arctous rubra, syn. Arctostaphylos rubra)
• Any of four dwarf shrubs of formerly all members of the genus Arctostaphylos, three now assigned to genus Arctous, which principally grow in arctic and subarctic regions and bear edible berries.
• A similar berry of temperate south-central China (Arctous microphylla).
• Pacific madrone (Arbutus menziesii).

Synonyms

bearwood, cascara buckthorn, chittamwood, chittimwood, Ilex decidua, possum haw, Rhamnus purshianus, winterberry, bear's-grape, uva ursi