boxberry Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun creeping woody plant of eastern North America with shiny evergreen leaves and scarlet berries
    Mitchella repens; partridgeberry; twinberry.
  2. noun spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil
    spiceberry; teaberry; wintergreen; checkerberry.

WordNet

Box"ber`ry noun
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) The wintergreern. (Gaultheria procumbens). Local, U.S.

Webster 1913