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boxberry

DEFINITIONS OF: boxberry

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n creeping woody plant of eastern North America with shiny evergreen leaves and scarlet berries

Synonyms:
Mitchella repens, partridgeberry, twinberry
Type of:
vine
a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface

n spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil

Synonyms:
checkerberry, spiceberry, teaberry, wintergreen
Type of:
berry
any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits; used as desserts or in making jams and jellies and preserves
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