boxberry

boxberry

(ˈbɒksbərɪ) n, pl -ries1. (Plants) the fruit of the partridgeberry or wintergreen2. (Plants) another name for partridgeberry, wintergreen¹

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Noun	1.	boxberry - creeping woody plant of eastern North America with shiny evergreen leaves and scarlet berriesMitchella repens, partridgeberry, twinberrygenus Mitchella, Mitchella - creeping evergreen herbs of North Americavine - a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface
	2.	boxberry - spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oilcheckerberry, spiceberry, teaberry, wintergreenberry - any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits; used as desserts or in making jams and jellies and preservescheckerberry, creeping wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens, mountain tea, teaberry, wintergreen, groundberry, ground-berry - creeping shrub of eastern North America having white bell-shaped flowers followed by spicy red berrylike fruit and shiny aromatic leaves that yield wintergreen oil