BOXBERRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does boxberry mean? 

• BOXBERRY (noun)
  The noun BOXBERRY has 2 senses:

1. creeping woody plant of eastern North America with shiny evergreen leaves and scarlet berries

2. spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil

  Familiarity information: BOXBERRY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOXBERRY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Creeping woody plant of eastern North America with shiny evergreen leaves and scarlet berries

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

boxberry; Mitchella repens; partridgeberry; twinberry

Hypernyms ("boxberry" is a kind of...):

vine (a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface)

Holonyms ("boxberry" is a member of...):

genus Mitchella; Mitchella (creeping evergreen herbs of North America)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

boxberry; checkerberry; spiceberry; teaberry; wintergreen

Hypernyms ("boxberry" is a kind of...):

berry (any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits; used as desserts or in making jams and jellies and preserves)

Holonyms ("boxberry" is a part of...):

checkerberry; creeping wintergreen; Gaultheria procumbens; ground-berry; groundberry; mountain tea; teaberry; wintergreen (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)