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    GROUND-BERRY

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Creeping shrub of eastern North America having white bell-shaped flowers followed by spicy red berrylike fruit and shiny aromatic leaves that yield wintergreen oilplay

    Synonyms:

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

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("ground-berry" is a kind of...):

    shrublet (dwarf shrub)

    Meronyms (parts of "ground-berry"):

    boxberry; checkerberry; spiceberry; teaberry; wintergreen (spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil)

    Meronyms (substance of "ground-berry"):

    oil of wintergreen; wintergreen oil (oil or flavoring obtained from the creeping wintergreen or teaberry plant)

    Holonyms ("ground-berry" is a member of...):

    Gaultheria; genus Gaultheria (widely distributed genus of creeping or upright evergreen shrubs)

    Sense 2

    Meaning:

    Small prostrate or ascending shrub having scarlet flowers and succulent fruit resembling cranberries; sometimes placed in genus Stypheliaplay

    Synonyms:

    Astroloma humifusum; cranberry heath; ground-berry; groundberry; native cranberry; Styphelia humifusum

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("ground-berry" is a kind of...):

    bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

    Holonyms ("ground-berry" is a member of...):

    Astroloma; genus Astroloma (evergreen shrubs of Australia and Tasmania)

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