Plural of bearberry; small round berries, red or pink, produced by certain low-growing shrubs, sometimes eaten by bears and used medicinally by humans.
From bear combined with berries. The plant was named bearberry because bears are known to eat the berries, particularly the fruit of Arctostaphylos species.
Bearberries were used by Native Americans to treat urinary infections, and modern science confirmed they actually work—nature's original pharmacy, named after who ate them first!
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