Knotberry

Also knoutberry. [? f. KNOT sb.¹ + BERRY.] A local name of the Cloudberry, Rubus Chamæmorus.

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1633. Johnson, Gerarde’s Herbal, App. 1630. Knot, or Knout-berrie, or Cloud-berrie.

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1671. Skinner, Etymol. Ling. Angl., Knot-berry-bush, Chamæmorus.

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1778. J. Lightfoot, Flora Scot. (1789), I. 266. Cloud-berries, Knot-berries, or Knout-berries.

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1828. Craven Dial., Knout-berry.

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1859. W. S. Coleman, Woodlands (1862), 103. The Cloudberry…. Called also the Mountain Bramble and Knotberry.

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