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    LINGONBERRY

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Tart red berries similar to American cranberries but smallerplay

    Synonyms:

    cowberry; lingonberry; lowbush cranberry; mountain cranberry

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting foods and drinks

    Hypernyms ("lingonberry" is a kind of...):

    berry (any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits; used as desserts or in making jams and jellies and preserves)

    Holonyms ("lingonberry" is a part of...):

    cowberry; foxberry; lingberry; lingenberry; lingonberry; mountain cranberry; Vaccinium vitis-idaea (low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries)

    Sense 2

    Meaning:

    Low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berriesplay

    Synonyms:

    cowberry; foxberry; lingberry; lingenberry; lingonberry; mountain cranberry; Vaccinium vitis-idaea

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("lingonberry" is a kind of...):

    cranberry (any of numerous shrubs of genus Vaccinium bearing cranberries)

    Meronyms (parts of "lingonberry"):

    cowberry; lingonberry; lowbush cranberry; mountain cranberry (tart red berries similar to American cranberries but smaller)

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