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bunchberry

[ buhnch-ber-ee, -buh-ree ]

noun

plural bunchberries.
  1. a dwarf dogwood, Cornus canadensis, bearing dense clusters of bright-red berries.


bunchberry

/ ˈʌԳʃˌɛɪ /

noun

  1. a dwarf variety of dogwood native to North America, Cornus canadensis , having red berries
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of bunchberry1

First recorded in 1835–45; bunch + berry
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Dix organized work parties to clear paths and applied for a $2,200 King Conservation District grant to landscape and replant it with native plants — bunchberry, Oregon grape, flowering currant, salal.

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One of the fastest actions in the plant world is the explosive opening of flowers on the bunchberry dogwood, which happens in just under 0.5 milliseconds.

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Four of the seventeen species found in the United States are trees; the rest are shrubs, one of them the low-growing bunchberry of our Northern woods.

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In 2005, they described how the bunchberry dogwood flower shoots its pollen like a medieval catapult.

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He talked at random of brooks that start nowhere and go nowhere, save over white stones and past watercress; of thin ribbed ferns and of scarlet bunchberries.

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