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mooseberry
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a shrub, Viburnum opulus; also the reddish, tart berry of this shrub.
In the west, the terms mooseberry and pembina are often applied to the low-bush cranberry.
Quotations
1789
The women gathered large quantities of the fruit . . . cranberries, crowberries, mooseberries. . . .
1852
It is distinguished as a species from the very common cranberry tree, or moose berry (Mongsöa meena of the Crees), by the obtuse sinus of its leaves; and its fruit has an orange color, is less acid, more fleshy, and more agreeable to the taste.
1957
Mooseberry. Pimbina. Woods, thickets, shores, and gravel ridges throughout the province. . . .