Usually means: Small, creeping shrub with berries.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. bearberry: Merriam-Webster
  2. bearberry: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bearberry: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bearberry: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bearberry: Vocabulary.com
  6. bearberry: Wordnik
  7. bearberry: Wiktionary
  8. bearberry: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. bearberry: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. bearberry: Dictionary.com
  11. Bearberry: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Bearberry: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. bearberry: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. bearberry: Rhymezone
  15. Bearberry: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. bearberry: FreeDictionary.org
  17. bearberry: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. bearberry: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bearberry: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. bearberry: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. bearberry: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. A Modern Herbal, 1931, by Mrs. M. Grieve (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (bearberry)

noun:  Any of four dwarf shrubs of formerly all members of the genus Arctostaphylos, three now assigned to genus Arctous, which principally grow in arctic and subarctic regions and bear edible berries.
noun:  common bearberry (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi).
noun:  alpine bearberry, mountain bearberry, black bearberry (Arctous alpina, syn. Arctostaphylos alpinus)
noun:  red bearberry (Arctous rubra, syn. Arctostaphylos rubra)
noun:  A similar berry of temperate south-central China (Arctous microphylla).
noun:  Pacific madrone (Arbutus menziesii).

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