Vaccinium pennsylvanicum n 1: low-growing deciduous shrub of northeastern North America having flowers in compact racemes and bearing sweet dark blue berries [syn: {low-bush blueberry}, {low blueberry}, {Vaccinium angustifolium}, {Vaccinium pennsylvanicum}]
Blueberry \Blue"berry\, n. [Cf. {Blaeberry}.] (Bot.) The berry of several species of {Vaccinium}, an ericaceous genus, differing from the American huckleberries in containing numerous minute seeds instead of ten nutlets. The commonest species are {Vaccinium Pennsylvanicum} and {Vaccinium vacillans}. {Vaccinium corymbosum} is the tall blueberry. [1913 Webster]