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cloudberry

Definition of cloudberry

noun (plural cloudberries)

  • a dwarf bramble with white flowers and edible orange fruit, which grows on the mountains and moorlands of northern Eurasia and northern North America.
    • Rubus chamaemorus, family Rosaceae

Origin:

late 16th century: apparently from the noun cloud in the obsolete sense 'hill' + berry

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