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SPICEBERRY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil
Synonyms:
boxberry; checkerberry; spiceberry; teaberry; wintergreen
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("spiceberry" is a kind of...):
berry (any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits; used as desserts or in making jams and jellies and preserves)
Holonyms ("spiceberry" is a part of...):
checkerberry; creeping wintergreen; Gaultheria procumbens; ground-berry; groundberry; mountain tea; teaberry; wintergreen (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)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Shrub with coral-red berries; Japan to northern India
Synonyms:
Ardisia crenata; coralberry; spiceberry
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("spiceberry" is a kind of...):
bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)
Holonyms ("spiceberry" is a member of...):
Ardisia; genus Ardisia (tropical evergreen subshrubs (some climbers) to trees of Asia and Australasia to Americas)
