bearberry leaf

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the leaf of the bearberry bush, dried and used in making Indian tobacco.

See: bearberry(def. 3)

Quotations

1820

He next took up a calumet filled with a mixture of tobacco and bear-berry leaves. . . .

1960

[Caption] Bearberry leaves were dried and mixed with other plants or white man's tobacco.