English noun: groundberry |
1. | groundberry (plant) small prostrate or ascending shrub having scarlet flowers and succulent fruit resembling cranberries; sometimes placed in genus Styphelia |
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| Synonyms | Astroloma humifusum, cranberry heath, ground-berry, native cranberry, Styphelia humifusum |
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| Broader (hypernym) | bush, shrub |
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| Member meronym | Astroloma, genus Astroloma |
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2. | groundberry (plant) 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 |
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| Synonyms | checkerberry, creeping wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens, ground-berry, mountain tea, teaberry, wintergreen |
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| Broader (hypernym) | shrublet |
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| Part holonym | boxberry, checkerberry, spiceberry, teaberry, wintergreen |
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| Member meronym | Gaultheria, genus Gaultheria |
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| Substance holonym | oil of wintergreen, wintergreen oil |
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