boxberry

Noun
  1. Creeping woody plant of eastern North America with shiny evergreen leaves and scarlet berries (synset 112689278)
    is a type of: vine - a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface
    belongs to: genus mitchella, mitchella - creeping evergreen herbs of North America
    same as: mitchella repens, partridgeberry, twinberry
  2. Spicy red berrylike fruit;
    Source of wintergreen oil (synset 107759699)
    is a type of: berry - any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits; used as desserts or in making jams and jellies and preserves
    is a part of: checkerberry, creeping wintergreen, gaultheria procumbens, ground-berry, groundberry, mountain tea, teaberry, wintergreen - 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
    same as: checkerberry, spiceberry, teaberry, wintergreen

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