nagoonberry

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noun

Synonym of arctic raspberry.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

nounnagoonberry (plural nagoonberries)

plural nagoonberries

  1. Synonym of arctic raspberry.

    Nagoonberry's pink flowers develop into sweet, red fruit in late July and August.

    1994, Priscilla N. Russell, Ninilchik Plantlore
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    The loss of the nagoonberry population is distinctive since it means the loss of the only known occrnrence within the Bighorn Mountains.

    1995, Bighorn National Forest (N.F.), Tie Hack Dam and Reservoir: Draft Environmental Impact Statement

    When the smokejumpers had at last battled it to a standstill, 125,000 square acres of interior Alaskan scrub spruce, white spruce, paper birch, quaking aspen and balsam poplar had been laid waste, not to mention -- and what Kate grudged more -- countless lowbush and highbush cranberry, raspberry, salmonberry, lingonberry and nagoonberry stands.

    1995, Dana Stabenow, Play with Fire, →ISBN, page 6

    Synonyms: arctic raspberry

Synonyms & antonyms

nounSynonym of arctic raspberry.

Origin

  1. Tlingitneigóon
  2. Englishnagoonberry

From Tlingit neigóon.

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