uva : Idioms & Phrases
arctostaphylos uva-ursi
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noun evergreen mat-forming shrub of North America and northern Eurasia having small white flowers and red berries; leaves turn red in autumn
sand berry; mountain box; creashak; common bearberry; wild cranberry; mealberry; bear's grape; sandberry; hog cranberry; red bearberry.
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ribes uva-crispa
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noun spiny Eurasian shrub having greenish purple-tinged flowers and ovoid yellow-green or red-purple berries
Ribes grossularia; gooseberry; gooseberry bush.
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salix uva-ursi
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noun dwarf prostrate mat-forming shrub of Arctic and alpine regions of North America and Greenland having deep green elliptic leaves that taper toward the base
bearberry willow.
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uva-ursi
U`va-ur"si noun
Etymology
NL., fr. L.Definitions
(Bot.) The bearberry.