Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The wintergreen or checkerberry of North America, Gaultheria procumbens.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.), Local, U.S. The wintergreen. (
Gaultheria procumbens ).
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- noun The
teaberry .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun creeping woody plant of eastern North America with shiny evergreen leaves and scarlet berries
- noun spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil
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Examples
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Have no objection, either, to his bringing Elinor boxberry plums.
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Maud got out of the buggy, and picked the young boxberry-leaves, and the red berries, and pulled long vines of evergreen, and gathered moss.
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I never read yet of any maiden losing her heart on boxberry plums; though, to be sure, he might bewitch them.
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We had boxberry bread, boxberry stews and pies, and one day, I caught a glimpse of Grandma, in her part of the Ark, frying boxberry griddle-cakes.
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Wallencampers, with baskets and pails in their hands, going "boxberry plummin. '"
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She turned off the main road, crept through Joshua Woodman's bars, waved away Mrs. Carter's cows, trod the short grass of the pasture, with its well-worn path running through gardens of buttercups and whiteweed, and groves of boxberry leaves and sweet fern.
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So she dug up, very carefully, roots of plumy fern and partridge berries with their leaves, and wintergreen and boxberry plants, to grow in her window-garden in the winter.
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Out of the tufts of boxberry leaves and plums they made the word "Welcome," which they hung over the door.
In The Boyhood of Lincoln A Tale of the Tunker Schoolmaster and the Times of Black Hawk
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Upon that the boys went to work picking boxberry leaves, which grew at the roots of the pine trees, among the soft moss and last year's cones.
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"O, I put in spruce, or boxberry, or sarsaparilla."
hernesheir commented on the word boxberry
One for the berry listers.
January 11, 2013