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Definition of Boxberry
1. Noun. Creeping woody plant of eastern North America with shiny evergreen leaves and scarlet berries.
Group relationships: Genus Mitchella, Mitchella
Generic synonyms: Vine
2. Noun. Spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil.
Generic synonyms: Berry
Group relationships: Checkerberry, Creeping Wintergreen, Gaultheria Procumbens, Ground-berry, Groundberry, Mountain Tea, Teaberry, Wintergreen
Definition of Boxberry
1. n. The wintergreen. (Gaultheria procumbens).
Definition of Boxberry
1. Noun. An alternative name for the teaberry. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Boxberry
1. an evergreen plant [n -RIES]
Medical Definition of Boxberry
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Boxberry
Literary usage of Boxberry
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Primary Teacher (1878)
"—THE boxberry. My little class and I have a glass tumbler of red ... In the first
place, we will spell boxberry, and when you have all done so correctly,-I ..."
2. The Primary Teacher (1878)
"They have tiny specks of sweet boxberry-oil scattered through them, and this,
when withdrawn ... Who can tell me how they came upon these boxberry-plants ? ..."
3. Cape Cod by Henry David Thoreau, Amelia Montague Watson (1896)
"They were warmer colors than I had associated with the New England coast.
After threading a swamp full of boxberry, and climbing several hills covered with ..."
4. Graded Literature Readers by Harry Pratt Judson, Ida C. Bender (1900)
"He had eaten nothing but a few boxberry plums and boxberry leaves. 42. It was
too late to think of finding his way home that night. ..."
5. Leaves and Flowers, Or, Object Lessons in Botany: With a Flora : Prepared by Alphonso Wood (1891)
"Leaves many, small, oval. Flowers white, 4-parted. Berry white. Plant tastes like
Checkerberry. (Fig. 547.) fig. 547. boxberry, the entire ..."
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