groundberry

Noun
  1. Small prostrate or ascending shrub having scarlet flowers and succulent fruit resembling cranberries;
    Sometimes placed in genus Styphelia (synset 112274685)
    is a type of: bush, shrub - a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems
    belongs to: astroloma, genus astroloma - evergreen shrubs of Australia and Tasmania
    same as: astroloma humifusum, cranberry heath, ground-berry, native cranberry, styphelia humifusum
  2. 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 (synset 112256282)
    is a type of: shrublet - dwarf shrub
    belongs to: gaultheria, genus gaultheria - widely distributed genus of creeping or upright evergreen shrubs
    has: boxberry, checkerberry, spiceberry, teaberry, wintergreen - spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil
    substance holonym: oil of wintergreen, wintergreen oil - oil or flavoring obtained from the creeping wintergreen or teaberry plant
    same as: checkerberry, creeping wintergreen, gaultheria procumbens, ground-berry, mountain tea, teaberry, wintergreen

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