Ground-berry (Noun)
Meaning 1
Small prostrate or ascending shrub having scarlet flowers and succulent fruit resembling cranberries; sometimes placed in genus Styphelia.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- The gardeners in the park had to work carefully around the low-growing ground-berry plants that carpeted the soil under the large oak trees.
- Wildlife biologists found that the native bees relied heavily on the ground-berry for a source of nectar and pollen in the late spring.
- Visitors to the arboretum enjoyed strolling through the shrub collections and tasting the ripe ground-berries in late summer.
- Native plant enthusiasts searched high and low for seedlings of the elusive ground-berry to transplant to their restoration sites.
- Food historians credited early settlers in the New World with making jam and sauce from the juicy, edible fruits of the ground-berry bush.
Synonyms
Hypernyms
Meaning 2
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.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Synonyms
- Teaberry
- Groundberry
- Checkerberry
- Gaultheria Procumbens
- Creeping Wintergreen
- Wintergreen
- Mountain Tea