spice·ber·ry

(spīs′bĕr′ē)

An evergreen shrub (Ardisia crenata) native to Asia, cultivated as an ornamental for its attractive foliage and clusters of bright red, long-lasting berrylike fruit. Also called coralberry.

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spiceberry

(ˈspaɪsbərɪ; -brɪ)

n, pl -ries

1. (Plants) a myrtaceous tree, Eugenia rhombea, of the Caribbean and Florida, with orange or black edible fruits

2. (Cookery) the fruit of this tree

3. (Plants) any of various other aromatic plants or shrubs having spicy edible berries, such as wintergreen

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Noun	1.	spiceberry - shrub with coral-red berries; Japan to northern India Ardisia crenata, coralberry Ardisia, genus Ardisia - tropical evergreen subshrubs (some climbers) to trees of Asia and Australasia to Americas bush, shrub - a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems
	2.	spiceberry - spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil boxberry, checkerberry, teaberry, wintergreen berry - any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits; used as desserts or in making jams and jellies and preserves checkerberry, creeping wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens, mountain tea, teaberry, wintergreen, groundberry, ground-berry - 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

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It's not named, even colloquially, after any of its providers of more wholesome grub - the very smart (and well-hidden) gourmet Indian Spiceberry, US burger import Five Guys (which is in the Brewery Quarter but, like Le Bistrot Pierre, looks out into Caroline Street), and California-style burrito bar Tortilla.

It's a wrap; If you're looking for a burrito in Cardiff then Tortilla have got it all wrapped up

(2) Erin's lace-trimmed camisole, $58, of silk, nylon and lycra, is shown with a V-neck cardigan, $88, in spiceberry. Paired with the twin set are lightweight wool flannel cropped trousers in black, $108.

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