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Detailed Synonyms for groundberry in English

groundberry:

groundberry [the ~] noun

  1. the 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 1
    the teaberry; the groundberry; the creeping wintergreen; the Gaultheria procumbens; the wintergreen; the mountain tea; the ground-berry; the checkerberry
    – 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 1
  2. the groundberry
    – small prostrate or ascending shrub having scarlet flowers and succulent fruit resembling cranberries; sometimes placed in genus Styphelia 1
    the Styphelia humifusum; the groundberry; the cranberry heath; the Astroloma humifusum; the native cranberry; the ground-berry
    – small prostrate or ascending shrub having scarlet flowers and succulent fruit resembling cranberries; sometimes placed in genus Styphelia 1

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Related Definitions for "groundberry":

  1. creeping shrub of eastern North America having white bell-shaped flowers followed by spicy red berrylike fruit and shiny aromatic leaves that yield wintergreen oil1
  2. small prostrate or ascending shrub having scarlet flowers and succulent fruit resembling cranberries; sometimes placed in genus Styphelia1