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English noun: ground-berry

1. ground-berry (plant) small prostrate or ascending shrub having scarlet flowers and succulent fruit resembling cranberries; sometimes placed in genus Styphelia


SynonymsAstroloma humifusum, cranberry heath, groundberry, native cranberry, Styphelia humifusum


Broader (hypernym)bush, shrub


Member meronymAstroloma, genus Astroloma

2. ground-berry (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


Synonymscheckerberry, creeping wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens, groundberry, mountain tea, teaberry, wintergreen


Broader (hypernym)shrublet


Part holonymboxberry, checkerberry, spiceberry, teaberry, wintergreen


Member meronymGaultheria, genus Gaultheria


Substance holonymoil of wintergreen, wintergreen oil









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