groundberry

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

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  • Gaultheria procumbens — groundberry groundberry n. A small prostrate or ascending shrub ({Astroloma humifusum}) having scarlet flowers and thin fleshed succulent fruit resembling cranberries; sometimes placed in the genus {Styphelia}. Syn: native cranberry, cranberry… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Gaultheria procumbens — groundberry groundberry n. A small prostrate or ascending shrub ({Astroloma humifusum}) having scarlet flowers and thin fleshed succulent fruit resembling cranberries; sometimes placed in the genus {Styphelia}. Syn: native cranberry, cranberry… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Styphelia humifusum — groundberry groundberry n. A small prostrate or ascending shrub ({Astroloma humifusum}) having scarlet flowers and thin fleshed succulent fruit resembling cranberries; sometimes placed in the genus {Styphelia}. Syn: native cranberry, cranberry… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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