boxberry [ˈbɒksbərɪ]
n pl -ries
1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) the fruit of the partridgeberry or wintergreen
2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) another name for partridgeberry and wintergreen (sense 1)
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| Noun | 1. |  boxberry - creeping woody plant of eastern North America with shiny evergreen leaves and scarlet berriesgenus Mitchella, Mitchella - creeping evergreen herbs of North America vine - a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface |
| 2. | boxberry - spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil 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, ground-berry, groundberry - 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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