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Meanings of ground-berry in anglès

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.

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Small prostrate or ascending shrub having scarlet flowers and succulent fruit resembling cranberries; sometimes placed in genus Styphelia.

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Examples for "wintergreen"
Examples for "wintergreen"
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He sat staring at the brook; he chewed wintergreen leaves no longer.
The Copy-Cat, and Other Stories
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Flavor the pink mass with wintergreen and the white one with peppermint.
Woman's Institute Library of Cookery. Volume 5: Fruit and Fruit ...
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Some people call it the boxberry; and some call it wintergreen.
The Nursery, September 1873, Vol. XIV. No. 3
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She took some leaves of the wintergreen and chewed them to calm herself.
Indian Boyhood
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Methyl Salicylate Another mild analgesic, this is synthesized oil of wintergreen.
Wired
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The teaberry gown was too long for Miriam, and too large in every way.
The Girl at Cobhurst
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Molly, feeling a touch of rheumatism, was somewhere in the lower thicket seeking a teaberry tonic.
Wild Animals I Have Known
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After dinner Miriam went up to her room, where upon the bed lay Judith Pacewalk's teaberry gown.
The Girl at Cobhurst
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She is now the head of the house, and it is she who should wear the teaberry gown.
The Girl at Cobhurst
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Miriam, attired in her teaberry gown, came up from the Cobhurst kitchen, and walked out toward the garden.
The Girl at Cobhurst
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I came to hunt for some simples...for spearmint and checkerberry and tansy.
Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People
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The scent of pine-woods and checkerberry-leaves seemed to bang about her.
A New England Girlhood, Outlined from Memory (Beverly, MA)
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Her breath carried the keen scent of crushed checkerberry plums.
The Best Short Stories of 1921, and the Yearbook of the American...
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There was a twisted red-and-white stick of peppermint, pink checkerberry, clear barley- astickof every kind in the glass jars in Mr. Rose's store window.
Young Lucretia and Other Stories
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Many a child brought hither its spring offering of the first mitchella, or its autumn gift of checkerberries.
Flamsted quarries
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The old lady made hot corn bread and brewed a pot of mountain tea.
The Boy Scout Camera Club; Or, the Confession of a Photograph