ground-berry Meaning, Definition & Usage

1. noun small prostrate or ascending shrub having scarlet flowers and succulent fruit resembling cranberries; sometimes placed in genus Styphelia
   Styphelia humifusum; groundberry; cranberry heath; native cranberry; Astroloma humifusum.
   
2. noun 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
   teaberry; wintergreen; groundberry; Gaultheria procumbens; checkerberry; creeping wintergreen; mountain tea.
   

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