noun
1. small prostrate or ascending shrub having scarlet flowers and succulent fruit resembling cranberries; sometimes placed in genus Styphelia
• Syn: ↑native cranberry, ↑groundberry, ↑cranberry heath, ↑Astroloma humifusum, ↑Styphelia humifusum
• Member Holonyms: ↑Astroloma, ↑genus Astroloma
2. 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
• Syn:
↑teaberry, ↑wintergreen, ↑checkerberry, ↑mountain tea, ↑groundberry, ↑creeping wintergreen, ↑Gaultheria procumbens
• Hypernyms: ↑shrublet
• Member Holonyms: ↑Gaultheria, ↑genus Gaultheria
• Substance Meronyms: ↑wintergreen oil, ↑oil of wintergreen
• Part Meronyms: ↑wintergreen, ↑boxberry, ↑checkerberry, ↑teaberry, ↑spiceberry
Useful english dictionary. 2012.