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Meaning of "cowberry" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF COWBERRY

cowberry  [ˈkaʊbərɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF COWBERRY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
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Cowberry is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES COWBERRY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

cowberry

Vaccinium vitis-idaea

Vaccinium vitis-idaea is a short evergreen shrub in the heath family that bears edible fruit, native to boreal forest and Arctic tundra throughout the Northern Hemisphere from Eurasia to North America. Lingonberries are a staple in Northern Scandinavia, picked in the wild and used to accompany a variety of dishes. Commercial cultivation is undertaken in the U.S. Pacific Northwest.

Definition of cowberry in the English dictionary

The definition of cowberry in the dictionary is a creeping ericaceous evergreen shrub, Vaccinium vitis-idaea, of N temperate and arctic regions, with pink or red flowers and edible slightly acid berries. Other definition of cowberry is the berry of this plant.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH COWBERRY


blackberry
ˈblækbərɪ
Bloomsbury
ˈbluːmzbərɪ
blueberry
ˈbluːbərɪ
bribery
ˈbraɪbərɪ
bunbury
ˈbʌnbərɪ
Burberry
ˈbɜːbərɪ
Cadbury
ˈkædbərɪ
canterbury
ˈkæntəbərɪ
cranberry
ˈkrænbərɪ
crowberry
ˈkrəʊbərɪ
Glastonbury
ˈɡlæstənbərɪ
mulberry
ˈmʌlbərɪ
Newbury
ˈnjuːbərɪ
raspberry
ˈrɑːzbərɪ
robbery
ˈrɒbərɪ
Salisbury
ˈsɔːlzbərɪ
Shrewsbury
ˈʃrəʊzbərɪ
snowberry
ˈsnəʊbərɪ
strawberry
ˈstrɔːbərɪ
Sudbury
ˈsʌdbərɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE COWBERRY

cowan
coward
cowardice
cowardliness
cowardly
cowardry
cowardship
cowbane
cowbell
cowberries
cowbind
cowbird
cowboy
cowboy boots
cowboy hat
cowboy outfit
cowboy up
cowcatcher
Cowdrey
cowed

WORDS THAT END LIKE COWBERRY

bayberry
bearberry
berry
bilberry
cherry
chinaberry
crackberry
dewberry
dingleberry
elderberry
gooseberry
hackberry
holly berry
huckleberry
Juneberry
lingonberry
loganberry
serviceberry
sugarberry
white mulberry
wineberry

Synonyms and antonyms of cowberry in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «cowberry» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF COWBERRY

Find out the translation of cowberry to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of cowberry from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «cowberry» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

越橘
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

arándano rojo
570 millions of speakers

English

cowberry
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

जल्दी ब्रेड
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

cowberry
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

брусника
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

murtinho
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বেরিবিশেষ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

airelle rouge
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Cowberry
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Preiselbeere
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

コケモモ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

월귤 나무
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Cowberry
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cowberry
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

cowberry
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

केबेरी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kırmızı yabanmersini
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

cowberry
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

brusznica
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

брусниця
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

merișor
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μύρτιλο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

bosbes
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

lingon
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

tyttebær
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of cowberry

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «COWBERRY»

The term «cowberry» is normally little used and occupies the 121.429 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «COWBERRY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «cowberry» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «cowberry» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about cowberry

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COWBERRY»

Discover the use of cowberry in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to cowberry and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Energy, Environment and Natural Resources Management in the ...
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION The mean cover of the cowberry coenopopulations in the analyses ranged from 0.1% to 21.4%. The maximum cover occurred in the Vacc. site type where its variability was the highest too ( variation coeflicient ...
Jes Fenger, 1993
2
75 Remarkable Fruits for Your Garden
I. 42. Lingonberry. (Cowberry). I. Vaccinium. vitis-idaea. The lingonberry was so vital a food source in ancient Scandinavia that, in Iceland, thirteenth-century law decreed that the number of berries you could pick on land not your own was ...
Jack Staub, 2009
3
Fire in Ecosystems of Boreal Eurasia
forest thaws out to the depth of 15-38 cm, in the wild rosemary-green-moss pine forest frozen ground occurs under a moss cover, in the cowberry-green-moss pine forest zero temperatures are at the depth of 10-25 cm. The most favorable ...
Johann Georg Goldammer, Valentin Furyaev, 1996
4
Domestication of the Cowberry (Vaccinium Vitis-idaea L.) in ...
Selostus: Puolukan (Vaccinium vitis-idaea L.) viljely Suomessa.
Aaro Lehmushovi, Jaakko Säkö, 1975
5
Issues in Life Sciences: Botany and Plant Biology Research: ...
cowberry. “The C-repeat binding factor/dehydration responsive element binding factor 1 (CBF/ DREB1) is a critical regulator of the development of tolerance to abiotic stress in plants. Here we report the cloning of the homologous gene, ...
‎2012
6
The Staffordshire Larder: A Definitive Guide to Wild Foods ...
Cowberry. /. Bearberry. Arctostaphylos ura-urs 5 –15 cm| August– October Yet another Moorland classic, but even less used than the crowberry. The cowberry is often overlooked due to its colour associated ...
Pete Bridgwood, 2011
7
Udeghe (Udihe) Folk Tales
74 Uta-digi ate know shaggy-shaggy this bird all that-ABL that teukte-tigi gualan'a uta bi:, pdu eme-kte-gi:-de cowberry-LAT turn.PERF that be.PRP together come- DIST-REP-FOC guna cinda na: se:-ni mani. 75. Teukte-ti(gi) gualan-a-i EV bird ...
Irina Alekseevna Nikolaeva, Elena Perekhvalskaya, Maria Tolskaya, 2002
8
Peasant Farming in Muscovy
Wild berries which are still collected in the forest zone of European Russia include the barberry (Berberis vulgaris), cowberry (Vaccinium vitis idaea), cranberry or bogberry (V. oxycoccus), bilberry (V. myrtillus), bog whortleberry (V. uliginosum), ...
Robert E. F. Smith, 1977
9
Upland Habitats
Species Box 2.9: Bilberry Vaccinium myrtillus and Cowberry Vaccinium vitis- idaea Species Box 2.1O: Bell heather Erica cinerea and Cross-leaved heather. The bilberry (also known as the whortleberry, bloomberry and blaeberry) is a common ...
Alan F. Fielding, Paul F. Haworth, 2002
10
Birds and Flowers of the Castle of Mey and Balmoral
Of the five Scottish species of Vaccinium, cowberry is possibly the most handsome with its glossy evergreen leaves, creeping habit and clusters of pink, bell-like flowers followed by shining scarlet berries. Depending on various factors heather ...
James Alder, 2003

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COWBERRY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term cowberry is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Getting a taste of St. Petersburg
... drink coffee instead of tea, eat sandwiches instead of pies and obviously the Baltic smelt, the cloudberry, the cowberry and the cranberry." ... «Russia Beyond the Headlines, Jun 15»
2
Wildlife group spend £40000 on land at Stiperstones
Once covered from end to end in a carpet of heather, bilberry and cowberry, the Stiperstones ridge was, until the 1960s, one of the county's ... «shropshirestar.com, Apr 15»
3
Super-fruit even more super grown here
The lingonberry is also commonly known across Canada as: mossberry. cowberry. foxberry. lowbush cranberry. northern mountain cranberry. «Winnipeg Free Press, Mar 15»
4
As Retreating Soldiers Pour In, Ukraine Town Fears Fighting Will …
A supermarket called Cowberry in the center of town boarded up its windows, and workers began removing all bottles of liquor from the shelves ... «Wall Street Journal, Feb 15»
5
Winter Indoor Farmers Markets guide
... Chaseholm Farm Creamery (formerly The Real Live Food Company), Conant Valley Jams, Cowberry Crossing Farm, Dancing Spirits Herbs, ... «The Journal News | LoHud.com, Jan 15»
6
We're ruining our vacations by over-planning them
“The boulders beneath the trees were carpeted in moss and lichen, through which cowberry and bilberry grew. … The hazels and rowans ... «Washington Post, Dec 14»
7
Roots and Shoots: How to Feed Birds Without Making Them Into Bait
Groundcovers like Juniperus horizontalis or creeping juniper and Vaccinium vitis-idaea or cowberry have berries and won't be an easy hiding ... «Philipstown.info, Nov 14»
8
6 people bitten by wild boar in Tokyo
The other day I had wild boar filet-medallions with seasonal mushrooms in a cream sauce and some cowberry jam on the side - absolutely ... «RocketNews24, Nov 14»
9
Why this autumn is proving to be a berry bonanza
There are several other upland berries to try, such as Crowberry and Cowberry, but they lack a good enough flavour to make them worthwhile. «Cambridge News, Oct 14»
10
Abundance at the Pleasantville Farmer's Market on Saturday August …
Cowberry Crossing Farm has Certified Organic hamburger patties and ground lamb for lamb burgers. Like Cowberry, Kiernan Farm can be ... «HamletHub, Aug 14»

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