Editing Vaccinium vitis-idaea (section)

=== Etymology ===
''Vaccinium vitis-idaea'' is most commonly known in English as 'lingonberry' or 'cowberry'.<ref name="stang">{{cite book |author1=Elden J. Stang |url=http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/proceedings1990/v1-321.html |title=Advances in new crops |author2=Gavin G. Weis |author3=John Klueh |publisher=Timber Press |year=1990 |editor1=J. Janick |pages=321–323 |chapter=Lingonberry: Potential New Fruit for the Northern United States |editor2=J.E. Simon |name-list-style=amp}}</ref><ref name="Gray's Manual of Botany">Gray's Manual of Botany: [[Asa Gray]]</ref><ref name="USDA">{{PLANTS|symbol=VAVI|taxon=Vaccinium vitis-idaea}}</ref> The name 'lingonberry' originates from the Swedish name {{Lang|sv|lingon}} ({{IPA|sv|ˈlɪŋɔn||audio=sv-lingon.ogg}}) for the species deriving from [[Old Norse]] ''lyngr'', a cognate (thus also a doublet) to '[[Calluna|ling]]'.<ref>{{cite book |last1=de Vries |first1=Jan |title=Altnordisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch |date=1962 |publisher=Brill |page=370}}</ref>

The [[binomial nomenclature|genus name]] ''Vaccinium'' is a [[classical Latin]] name for a plant, possibly the [[Vaccinium myrtillus|bilberry]] or [[hyacinth (plant)|hyacinth]], and may be derived from the Latin {{Lang|la|bacca}}, 'berry'.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Hyam |first1=R. |title=Plants and their names : a concise dictionary |last2=Pankhurst |first2=R.J. |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=1995 |isbn=978-0-19-866189-4 |location=Oxford |name-list-style=amp}} p. 515.</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Coombes |first=Allen J. |title=Dictionary of Plant Names |publisher=Hamlyn Books |year=1994 |isbn=978-0-600-58187-1 |location=London}} p. 187.</ref> The specific name is derived from Latin {{Lang|la|vitis}} ('vine') and {{Lang|la|idaea}}, the feminine form of {{Lang|la|idaeus}} (literally 'from [[Mount Ida]]', used in reference to raspberries ''[[Rubus idaeus]]'').<ref name="mw">{{cite dictionary |title=idaein |dictionary=Merriam-Webster |url=http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/idaein}}</ref><ref name="bo">{{cite web |date=19 January 2019 |title=Raspberries |url=http://www.botanical-online.com/english/raspberry.htm |publisher=Botanical-online}}</ref>

Worldwide, ''Vaccinium vitis-idaea'' is known by at least 25 other common English names, including:<ref name="stang" />

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* bearberry
* beaverberry
* cougarberry
* foxberry
* lowbush cranberry
* mountain bilberry
* mountain cranberry
* partridgeberry<ref name="Hall">{{cite book|last=Hall|first=Joan Houston|year=2002|title=Dictionary of American Regional English|publisher=[[Harvard University Press]]|page=47|isbn=0-674-00884-7|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=i33BWgxbvXgC&pg=PA47 |access-date=2007-11-16}}</ref> (in [[Newfoundland (island)|Newfoundland]] and [[Cape Breton Island]])
* quailberry
* red whortleberry
* redberry (in [[Labrador]] and the [[Le Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent Regional County Municipality|Lower North Shore]] of [[Quebec]])
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