boxberry

boxberry
noun
1. creeping woody plant of eastern North America with shiny evergreen leaves and scarlet berries
Hypernyms: ↑vine
Member Holonyms: ↑Mitchella, ↑genus Mitchella
2. spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil
Hypernyms: ↑berry
Part Holonyms:

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\\ˈ ̷ ̷- — see berry\ noun
Etymology: box (I)
1. : wintergreen 2a

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/boks"ber'ee, -beuh ree/, n., pl. boxberries.
1. the checkerberry.
2. the partridgeberry.
[1700-10, Amer.; BOX3 + BERRY]

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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