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bunchberry definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: creeping perennial herb distinguished by red berries and clustered leaf whorls at the tips of shoots; Greenland to Alaska [syn: bunchberry, dwarf cornel, crackerberry, pudding berry, Cornus canadensis]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1845 a creeping perennial herb (Cornus canadensis) of the dogwood family that has whorled leaves and white floral bracts and bears clusters of red berries

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Bunchberry Bunch"ber`ry, n. (Bot.) The dwarf cornel (Cornus Canadensis), which bears a dense cluster of bright red, edible berries.