ground-berry
n 1: small prostrate or ascending shrub having scarlet flowers
and succulent fruit resembling cranberries; sometimes
place in genus Styphelia [syn: native cranberry, groundberry,
cranberry heath, Astroloma humifusum, Styphelia
humifusum]
2: 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 [syn:
teaberry, wintergreen, checkerberry, mountain tea,
groundberry, creeping wintergreen, Gaultheria
procumbens]
groundberry
n 1: small prostrate or ascending shrub having scarlet flowers
and succulent fruit resembling cranberries; sometimes
place in genus Styphelia [syn: native cranberry, ground-berry,
cranberry heath, Astroloma humifusum, Styphelia
humifusum]
2: 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 [syn:
teaberry, wintergreen, checkerberry, mountain tea,
ground-berry, creeping wintergreen, Gaultheria
procumbens]