| NOUN | plant | boxberry, partridgeberry, twinberry, Mitchella repens | creeping woody plant of eastern North America with shiny evergreen leaves and scarlet berries |
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| food | boxberry, wintergreen, checkerberry, teaberry, spiceberry | spicy red berrylike fruit |
| Meaning | Creeping woody plant of eastern North America with shiny evergreen leaves and scarlet berries. | |
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| Synonyms | partridgeberry, twinberry, Mitchella repens | |
| Member of | Mitchella, genus Mitchella | Creeping evergreen herbs of North America |
| Broader | vine | A plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface |
| Meaning | spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil. | |
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| Synonyms | wintergreen, checkerberry, teaberry, spiceberry | |
| Part of | teaberry, wintergreen, checkerberry, mountain tea, groundberry, ground-berry, creeping wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens | 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 |
| Broader | berry | Any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits |
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