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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Blue·berry n.  Bot. The berry of several species of Vaccinium, an ericaceous genus, differing from the American huckleberries in containing numerous minute seeds instead of ten nutlets.  The commonest species are Vaccinium Pennsylvanicum and Vaccinium vacillans.  Vaccinium corymbosum is the tall blueberry.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 Vaccinium corymbosum
      n : high-growing deciduous shrub of eastern North America
          bearing edible blueish to blackish berries with a
          distinct bloom; source of most cultivated blueberries
          [syn: high-bush blueberry, tall bilberry, swamp
           blueberry]