Vaccinium corymbosum n 1: high-growing deciduous shrub of eastern North America bearing edible blueish to blackish berries with a distinct bloom; source of most cultivated blueberries [syn: {high- bush blueberry}, {tall bilberry}, {swamp blueberry}, {Vaccinium corymbosum}]
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]