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Meaning of GROUNDBERRY

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  1. [n]  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
  2. [n]  small prostrate or ascending shrub having scarlet flowers and succulent fruit resembling cranberries; sometimes place in genus Styphelia
 
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 Synonyms: Astroloma humifusum, checkerberry, cranberry heath, creeping wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens, mountain tea, native cranberry, Styphelia humifusum, teaberry, wintergreen
 
 See Also: Astroloma, boxberry, bush, Gaultheria, genus Astroloma, genus Gaultheria, oil of wintergreen, shrub, shrublet, spiceberry, wintergreen oil

 

 

 

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