"bearberry" | Definition and Related Words

Noun

Shrubby tree of the Pacific coast of the United States;
Yields cascara sagrada (synset 113162341)
is a type of: buckthorn - a shrub or shrubby tree of the genus Rhamnus; fruits are source of yellow dyes or pigments

has: cascara, cascara sagrada, chittam bark, chittem bark - dried bark of the cascara buckthorn used as a laxative

same as: bearwood, cascara buckthorn, chittamwood, chittimwood, rhamnus purshianus
Deciduous shrub of southeastern and central United States (synset 112778063)
is a type of: holly - any tree or shrub of the genus Ilex having red berries and shiny evergreen leaves with prickly edges

same as: ilex decidua, possum haw, winterberry
Chiefly evergreen subshrubs of northern to Arctic areas (synset 112251709)
is a type of: bush, shrub - a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems
subtypes:
- arctostaphylos uva-ursi, bear's grape, common bearberry, creashak, hog cranberry, mealberry, mountain box, red bearberry, sand berry, sandberry, wild cranberry - evergreen mat-forming shrub of North America and northern Eurasia having small white flowers and red berries; leaves turn red in autumn
- alpine bearberry, arctostaphylos alpina, black bearberry - deciduous creeping shrub bright red in autumn having black or blue-black berries; alpine and circumpolar
belongs to: arctostaphylos, genus arctostaphylos - bearberry; manzanita