| NOUN | plant | spiceberry, coralberry, Ardisia crenata | shrub with coral-red berries |
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| food | spiceberry, wintergreen, boxberry, checkerberry, teaberry | spicy red berrylike fruit |
| Meaning | shrub with coral-red berries; Japan to northern India. | |
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| Synonyms | coralberry, Ardisia crenata | |
| Member of | Ardisia, genus Ardisia | Tropical evergreen subshrubs (some climbers) to trees of Asia and Australasia to Americas |
| Broader | shrub, bush | A low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems |
| Meaning | spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil. | |
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| Synonyms | wintergreen, boxberry, checkerberry, teaberry | |
| 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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