cowberry vs Vaccinium vitis-idaea

cowberry and Vaccinium vitis-idaea both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
cowberry	Yes	No	No	No
Vaccinium vitis-idaea	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, cowberry and Vaccinium vitis-idaea are synonyms defined as:

cowberry and Vaccinium vitis-idaea: low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries

Other synonyms of cowberry include foxberry, lingberry, lingenberry, lingonberry, mountain cranberry.

cowberry (noun)	Vaccinium vitis-idaea (noun)
tart red berries similar to American cranberries but smaller	low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries
low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries