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Meanings of boxberry in English

Spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil.

Creeping woody plant of eastern North America with shiny evergreen leaves and scarlet berries.

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Examples for "wintergreen"
Examples for "wintergreen"
1
He sat staring at the brook; he chewed wintergreen leaves no longer.
The Copy-Cat, and Other Stories
2
Flavor the pink mass with wintergreen and the white one with peppermint.
Woman's Institute Library of Cookery. Volume 5: Fruit and Fruit ...
3
Some people call it the boxberry; and some call it wintergreen.
The Nursery, September 1873, Vol. XIV. No. 3
4
She took some leaves of the wintergreen and chewed them to calm herself.
Indian Boyhood
5
Methyl Salicylate Another mild analgesic, this is synthesized oil of wintergreen.
Wired
1
The teaberry gown was too long for Miriam, and too large in every way.
The Girl at Cobhurst
2
Molly, feeling a touch of rheumatism, was somewhere in the lower thicket seeking a teaberry tonic.
Wild Animals I Have Known
3
After dinner Miriam went up to her room, where upon the bed lay Judith Pacewalk's teaberry gown.
The Girl at Cobhurst
4
She is now the head of the house, and it is she who should wear the teaberry gown.
The Girl at Cobhurst
5
Miriam, attired in her teaberry gown, came up from the Cobhurst kitchen, and walked out toward the garden.
The Girl at Cobhurst
1
I came to hunt for some simples...for spearmint and checkerberry and tansy.
Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People
2
The scent of pine-woods and checkerberry-leaves seemed to bang about her.
A New England Girlhood, Outlined from Memory (Beverly, MA)
3
Her breath carried the keen scent of crushed checkerberry plums.
The Best Short Stories of 1921, and the Yearbook of the American...
4
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
5
Many a child brought hither its spring offering of the first mitchella, or its autumn gift of checkerberries.
Flamsted quarries
Usage of boxberry in English
1
Some people call it the boxberry; and some call it wintergreen.
The Nursery, September 1873, Vol. XIV. No. 3
2
Have no objection, either, to his bringing Elinor boxberry plums.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 / A Maga...
3
I never read yet of any maiden losing her heart on boxberry plums; though, to be sure, he might bewitch them.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 / A Maga...
4
Boxberry, fever-bush, sweet fern, and horseradish make a good and healthy diet-drink.
The American Frugal Housewife
5
'O, he don't bring me nigh boxberries enough,' says Elinor, laughing.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 / A Maga...
Boxberry through the time