NOUN
- blue-black berries similar to American blueberries
- erect European blueberry having solitary flowers and blue-black berries
How To Use whortleberry In A Sentence
- Vaccinium myrtillus is a member of the Ericaceae family, and is also known as European blueberry, huckleberry, whortleberry, or blueberry.
- Understory growth is not luxuriant, consisting mostly of grouse whortleberry, Oregon grape, and birchleaf spirea. Ecoregions of Wyoming (EPA)
- Bog whortleberry (or bog bilberry – '' Vaccinium uliginosum ''), lingonberry, and mountain crowberry showed increases in leaf ice nucleation temperature exceeding 2.5 °C whereas bilberry showed no significant effect, as in another study [99]. Phenotypic responses of arctic species to changes in climate and ultraviolet-B radiation
- In contrast, K. Taulavuori et al. [115], found decreased frost resistance in bilberry in response to elevated UV-B radiation levels and Beerling et al. [116] showed decreased frost resistance in bog whortleberry, lingonberry, and mountain crowberry. Phenotypic responses of arctic species to changes in climate and ultraviolet-B radiation
- The most popular plant worn as a clan emblem was the red whortleberry.
- Mountain crowberry and lingonberry showed no responses to enhanced UV-B radiation levels after seven years of exposure whereas bog whortleberry and bilberry showed few responses (Table 7.6). Phenotypic responses of arctic species to changes in climate and ultraviolet-B radiation