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GROUNDBERRY
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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 oil
Synonyms:
checkerberry; creeping wintergreen; Gaultheria procumbens; ground-berry; groundberry; mountain tea; teaberry; wintergreen
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("groundberry" is a kind of...):
shrublet (dwarf shrub)
Meronyms (parts of "groundberry"):
boxberry; checkerberry; spiceberry; teaberry; wintergreen (spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil)
Meronyms (substance of "groundberry"):
oil of wintergreen; wintergreen oil (oil or flavoring obtained from the creeping wintergreen or teaberry plant)
Holonyms ("groundberry" 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 Styphelia
Synonyms:
Astroloma humifusum; cranberry heath; ground-berry; groundberry; native cranberry; Styphelia humifusum
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("groundberry" is a kind of...):
bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)
Holonyms ("groundberry" is a member of...):
Astroloma; genus Astroloma (evergreen shrubs of Australia and Tasmania)
