uva : Idioms & Phrases


arctostaphylos uva-ursi

  • noun evergreen mat-forming shrub of North America and northern Eurasia having small white flowers and red berries; leaves turn red in autumn
    sand berry; mountain box; creashak; common bearberry; wild cranberry; mealberry; bear's grape; sandberry; hog cranberry; red bearberry.
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ribes uva-crispa

  • noun spiny Eurasian shrub having greenish purple-tinged flowers and ovoid yellow-green or red-purple berries
    Ribes grossularia; gooseberry; gooseberry bush.
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salix uva-ursi

  • noun dwarf prostrate mat-forming shrub of Arctic and alpine regions of North America and Greenland having deep green elliptic leaves that taper toward the base
    bearberry willow.
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uva-ursi

U`va-ur"si noun
Etymology
NL., fr. L. uva grape + ursus bear.
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) The bearberry.
Webster 1913