boxberry

Plural: boxberries

Noun

• A low-growing evergreen plant with small, edible berries.
• creeping woody plant of eastern North America with shiny evergreen leaves and scarlet berries
• spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil
• A teaberry bush (Gaultheria procumbens).

Examples

• Placing BOXBERRY on a triple-word score in Words With Friends felt like harvesting a bountiful vocabulary garden.

Synonyms

checkerberry, Mitchella repens, partridgeberry, spiceberry, teaberry, twinberry, wintergreen