GROUNDBERRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does groundberry mean? 

• GROUNDBERRY (noun)
  The noun GROUNDBERRY has 2 senses:

1. small prostrate or ascending shrub having scarlet flowers and succulent fruit resembling cranberries; sometimes placed in genus Styphelia

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

  Familiarity information: GROUNDBERRY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GROUNDBERRY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small prostrate or ascending shrub having scarlet flowers and succulent fruit resembling cranberries; sometimes placed in genus Styphelia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Astroloma humifusum; cranberry heath; ground-berry; groundberry; native cranberry; Styphelia humifusum

Hypernyms ("groundberry" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Holonyms ("groundberry" is a member of...):

Astroloma; genus Astroloma (evergreen shrubs of Australia and Tasmania)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

checkerberry; creeping wintergreen; Gaultheria procumbens; ground-berry; groundberry; mountain tea; teaberry; wintergreen

Hypernyms ("groundberry" is a kind of...):

shrublet (dwarf shrub)

Meronyms (parts of "groundberry"):

boxberry; checkerberry; spiceberry; teaberry; wintergreen (spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil)

Meronyms (substance of "groundberry"):

oil of wintergreen; wintergreen oil (oil or flavoring obtained from the creeping wintergreen or teaberry plant)

Holonyms ("groundberry" is a member of...):

Gaultheria; genus Gaultheria (widely distributed genus of creeping or upright evergreen shrubs)