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English noun: boxberry

1. boxberry (plant) creeping woody plant of eastern North America with shiny evergreen leaves and scarlet berries


SynonymsMitchella repens, partridgeberry, twinberry


Broader (hypernym)vine


Member meronymgenus Mitchella, Mitchella

2. boxberry (food) spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil


Synonymscheckerberry, spiceberry, teaberry, wintergreen


Broader (hypernym)berry


Part meronymcheckerberry, creeping wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens, ground-berry, groundberry, mountain tea, teaberry, wintergreen









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