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boxberry

noun

1. creeping woody plant of eastern North America with shiny evergreen leaves and scarlet berries

• Syn: ↑partridgeberry, ↑twinberry, ↑Mitchella repens

• Hypernyms: ↑vine

• Member Holonyms: ↑Mitchella, ↑genus Mitchella

2. spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil

• Syn: ↑wintergreen, ↑checkerberry, ↑teaberry, ↑spiceberry

• Hypernyms: ↑berry

• Part Holonyms:

↑teaberry, ↑wintergreen, ↑checkerberry, ↑mountain tea, ↑groundberry, ↑ground-berry, ↑creeping wintergreen, ↑Gaultheria procumbens

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\\ˈ ̷ ̷- — see berry\ noun

Etymology: box (I)

1. : wintergreen 2a

2. : partridgeberry 1

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/boks"ber'ee, -beuh ree/, n., pl. boxberries.

1. the checkerberry.

2. the partridgeberry.

[1700-10, Amer.; BOX³ + BERRY]

Useful english dictionary. 2012.