noun
1. shrub with coral-red berries; Japan to northern India
• Syn: ↑coralberry, ↑Ardisia crenata
• Member Holonyms: ↑Ardisia, ↑genus Ardisia
2. spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil
• Syn: ↑wintergreen, ↑boxberry, ↑checkerberry, ↑teaberry
• Hypernyms: ↑berry
• Part Holonyms:
↑teaberry, ↑wintergreen, ↑checkerberry, ↑mountain tea, ↑groundberry, ↑ground-berry, ↑creeping wintergreen, ↑Gaultheria procumbens
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\\ˈspīs- — see berry\ noun1. : wintergreen 2a
2. : red stopper
3. : spicebush
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spiceˈberry noun
1. Any of several plants having spicy edible berries, eg a small American tree, Eugenia rhombea, with black or orange fruits
2. The fruit of this tree
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Main Entry: ↑spice
Useful english dictionary. 2012.