mossberry means empetrum nigrum, a species of crowberry. Lexicurio rates it Distinctive — a strength score of 68 out of 100.
Etymology
From moss + berry.
noun
- Empetrum nigrum, a species of crowberry.“Many kinds of wild fruit gave variety to our diet of fish and birds—red currants and gooseberries, red raspberries and black mossberries, high and low-bush cranberries, and, best of all, the northern blueberries, which grow profusely all over this part of the Yukon.”