spiceberry

spice·ber·ry  (spsbr)

n.

1. An eastern Asian shrub (Ardisia crenata) having numerous, coral-red fleshy fruit.

2. Coralberry.

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spiceberry [ˈspaɪsbərɪ -brɪ]

n pl -ries

1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / 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. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) any of various other aromatic plants or shrubs having spicy edible berries, such as wintergreen

Thesaurus

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, 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