different between vaccinium vs farkleberry

English

Etymology

From the genus name.

Noun

vaccinium (plural vacciniums)

1. (botany) Any of the genus Vaccinium of ericaceous shrubs including the various kinds of blueberries and the true cranberries.

Latin

Etymology

From vacc?nus (“relating to cows”), or a corruption of Ancient Greek ???????? (huákinthos, “dark red, purple”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /u?ak?ki?.ni.um/, [u?äk?ki?ni???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /vat?t??i.ni.um/, [v?t?t??i?nium]

Noun

vacc?nium n (genitive vacc?ni? or vacc?n?); second declension

1. the bilberry, blueberry, whortleberry

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

• ? Translingual: Vaccinium
  • ? English: vaccinium

References

• vaccinium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vaccinium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vaccinium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

English

Etymology

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Noun

farkleberry (countable and uncountable, plural farkleberries)

1. (uncountable) A species of Vaccinium (Vaccinium arboreum) native to the southeastern United States, from southern Virginia west to southeastern Missouri, and south to Florida and eastern Texas, and taking the form of a shrub (rarely a small tree) growing to 3-5 m (rarely 9 m) tall.
2. (countable) A berry from a shrub of this species.

Synonyms

• sparkleberry

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