SPICEBERRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does spiceberry mean? 

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

1. shrub with coral-red berries; Japan to northern India

2. spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil

  Familiarity information: SPICEBERRY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPICEBERRY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Shrub with coral-red berries; Japan to northern India

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Ardisia crenata; coralberry; spiceberry

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

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

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

Ardisia; genus Ardisia (tropical evergreen subshrubs (some climbers) to trees of Asia and Australasia to Americas)

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 ("spiceberry" 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 ("spiceberry" 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)