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 "partridgeberry "
Examples for "partridgeberry "
1 The partridgeberry likes pine forests and dry woods.
2 Another ground berry is the partridgeberry .
3 The midwife made charm after charm for the ewes and the goats, the apothecary made infusions of partridgeberry and milk thistle.
1 Mitchella repens , pollen-grains of the long-styled a little smaller.
2 Mitchella repens : 20: 47.
1 Some people call it the boxberry ; and some call it wintergreen.
2 Have no objection, either, to his bringing Elinor boxberry plums.
3 I never read yet of any maiden losing her heart on boxberry plums; though, to be sure, he might bewitch them.
4 Boxberry , fever-bush, sweet fern, and horseradish make a good and healthy diet-drink.
5 'O, he don't bring me nigh boxberries enough,' says Elinor, laughing.
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