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bearberry bush

• a trailing shrub, Arctostaphylos uva-ursi, found on bare, gravelly soils throughout Canada; kinnikinnik (def. 2).

  See also: bearberry (def. 1)  

  • 1910  (c1911)  Nor should we forget to mention the fruit of the kinnikinnik or bearberry bush.
  • 1959  They . . . just munched the leaves of choice kinnikinnik or bearberry bush.