English noun: boxberry |
1. | boxberry (plant) creeping woody plant of eastern North America with shiny evergreen leaves and scarlet berries |
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| Synonyms | Mitchella repens, partridgeberry, twinberry |
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| Broader (hypernym) | vine |
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| Member meronym | genus Mitchella, Mitchella |
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2. | boxberry (food) spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil |
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| Synonyms | checkerberry, spiceberry, teaberry, wintergreen |
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| Broader (hypernym) | berry |
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| Part meronym | checkerberry, creeping wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens, ground-berry, groundberry, mountain tea, teaberry, wintergreen |
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