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Empetrum

noun

crowberries

• Syn: ↑genus Empetrum

• Hypernyms: ↑dicot genus, ↑magnoliopsid genus

• Member Holonyms: ↑Empetraceae, ↑family Empetraceae, ↑crowberry family

• Member Meronyms: ↑crowberry

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\\ˈempə.trəm\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Greek empetron, neuter of empetros growing on rock, from em- en- (II) + -petros (from petra rock)

: a genus (the type of the family Empetraceae) of low shrubs having flowers scattered and solitary or few in the axils — see crowberry

Useful english dictionary. 2012.