bearberry bush

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a trailing shrub, Arctostaphylos uva-ursi, found on bare, gravelly soils throughout Canada; kinnikinnik (def. 2).

See: bearberry(def. 1)

Quotations

1910

Nor should we forget to mention the fruit of the kinnikinnik or bearberry bush.

1959

They . . . just munched the leaves of choice kinnikinnik or bearberry bush.