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Boxberry

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






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"Boxberry" Quotes from Famous Books



... the woods with a basket and a trowel. It was nearly winter, and she knew that soon the snow would fall and cover all the pretty growing things. So she dug up, very carefully, roots of plumy fern and partridge berries with their leaves, and wintergreen and boxberry plants, to grow in her window-garden in the winter. She took the Violet too, bringing away so much of the earth around her roots that the little thing scarcely felt that she had been moved. As Bessie ...
— The Story Hour • Nora A. Smith and Kate Douglas Wiggin



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