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Partridgeberry

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Noun

1. boxberry, mitchella repens, partridgeberry, twinberry

creeping woody plant of eastern North America with shiny evergreen leaves and scarlet berries

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Partridgeberry

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noun plural -ries
1. Also called: boxberry, twinberry
a creeping woody rubiaceous plant, Mitchella repens, of E North America with small white fragrant flowers and scarlet berries
2. 
the berry of the wintergreen
3.  another name for wintergreen (sense 1)

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Partridgeberry

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nounWord forms: plural ˈpartridgeˌberries
1. 
a trailing North American evergreen (Mitchella repens) of the madder family with opposite, rounded leaves, pinkish flowers, and red berries
2. 
its berry

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Partridgeberry

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n.
A creeping evergreen perennial plant (Mitchella repens) of eastern North America, having small white paired flowers and scarlet berries. Also called twinberry.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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