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groundberry

noun

1. small prostrate or ascending shrub having scarlet flowers and succulent fruit resembling cranberries; sometimes placed in genus Styphelia

• Syn: ↑native cranberry, ↑ground-berry, ↑cranberry heath, ↑Astroloma humifusum, ↑Styphelia humifusum

• Hypernyms: ↑shrub, ↑bush

• 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, ↑ground-berry, ↑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

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\\ˈgrau̇n(d)- — see berry\ noun

1. : checkerberry 1 a; also : the plant producing this berry

2. Australia : native cranberry

3. : a thick trailing evergreen shrub (Rubus hespidus) of eastern No. America that is used as a ground cover especially on banks and in rock gardens and that has hispid canes and glossy foliolate leaves

Useful english dictionary. 2012.