- boxberry
- noun1. creeping woody plant of eastern North America with shiny evergreen leaves and scarlet berries• Syn: ↑partridgeberry, ↑twinberry, ↑Mitchella repens• Hypernyms: ↑vine• Member Holonyms: ↑Mitchella, ↑genus Mitchella2. spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil• Syn: ↑wintergreen, ↑checkerberry, ↑teaberry, ↑spiceberry• Hypernyms: ↑berry• Part Holonyms:↑teaberry, ↑wintergreen, ↑checkerberry, ↑mountain tea, ↑groundberry, ↑ground-berry, ↑creeping wintergreen, ↑Gaultheria procumbens
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\\ˈ ̷ ̷- — see berry\ noun1. : wintergreen 2a2. : partridgeberry 1* * *
/boks"ber'ee, -beuh ree/, n., pl. boxberries.1. the checkerberry.2. the partridgeberry.[1700-10, Amer.; BOX3 + BERRY]
Useful english dictionary. 2012.