| Noun | 1.groundberry - small prostrate or ascending shrub having scarlet flowers and succulent fruit resembling cranberries; sometimes placed in genus StypheliaAstroloma humifusum, cranberry heath, ground-berry, native cranberry, Styphelia humifusumAstroloma, genus Astroloma - evergreen shrubs of Australia and Tasmaniabush, shrub - a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems | | 2. groundberry - creeping shrub of eastern North America having white bell-shaped flowers followed by spicy red berrylike fruit and shiny aromatic leaves that yield wintergreen oilcheckerberry, creeping wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens, mountain tea, teaberry, wintergreen, ground-berryboxberry, checkerberry, spiceberry, teaberry, wintergreen - spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oiloil of wintergreen, wintergreen oil - oil or flavoring obtained from the creeping wintergreen or teaberry plantGaultheria, genus Gaultheria - widely distributed genus of creeping or upright evergreen shrubsshrublet - dwarf shrub |