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BOXBERRY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil
Synonyms:
boxberry; checkerberry; spiceberry; teaberry; wintergreen
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("boxberry" is a kind of...):
berry (any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits; used as desserts or in making jams and jellies and preserves)
Holonyms ("boxberry" is a part of...):
checkerberry; creeping wintergreen; Gaultheria procumbens; ground-berry; groundberry; mountain tea; teaberry; wintergreen (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)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Creeping woody plant of eastern North America with shiny evergreen leaves and scarlet berries
Synonyms:
boxberry; Mitchella repens; partridgeberry; twinberry
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("boxberry" is a kind of...):
vine (a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface)
Holonyms ("boxberry" is a member of...):
genus Mitchella; Mitchella (creeping evergreen herbs of North America)
