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knotberry
Also knoutberry.
[? f. knot n.1 + berry.]
A local name of the Cloudberry, Rubus Chamæmorus.
1633Johnson Gerarde's Herbal App. 1630 Knot, or Knout-berrie, or Cloud-berrie. 1671Skinner Etymol. Ling. Angl., Knot-berry-bush, Chamæmorus. 1778Lightfoot Flora Scot. (1789) I. 266 Cloud-berries, Knot-berries, or Knout-berries. 1828Craven Dial., Knout-berry. 1859W. S. Coleman Woodlands (1862) 103 The Cloudberry... Called also the Mountain Bramble and Knotberry. |