Bunchberry definition
A creeping herbaceous plant (Cornus canadensis) chiefly of northern North America, having clusters of scarlet fruit and inconspicuous greenish flowers surrounded by four white, petallike bracts.
noun
A North American dwarf plant (Cornus canadensis) of the dogwood family, having minute flowers surrounded by four large, white bracts and, in the fall, bearing bunches of bright-red berries.
noun
The fruit of either of these plants.
noun
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Other Word Forms
Noun
Singular:
bunchberry
Plural:
bunchberries