groundberry
Nouns
- (n) small prostrate or ascending shrub having scarlet flowers and succulent fruit resembling cranberries; sometimes placed in genus Styphelia Astroloma humifusum, cranberry heath, ground-berry, native cranberry, Styphelia humifusum,
- (n) 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 checkerberry, creeping wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens, mountain tea, teaberry, ground-berry, wintergreen,