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Spiceberry

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Noun

1. ardisia crenata, coralberry, spiceberry

shrub with coral-red berries; Japan to northern India

2. boxberry, checkerberry, spiceberry, teaberry, wintergreen

spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Spiceberry

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noun plural -ries
1. 
a myrtaceous tree, Eugenia rhombea, of the Caribbean and Florida, with orange or black edible fruits
2. 
the fruit of this tree
3. 
any of various other aromatic plants or shrubs having spicy edible berries, such as wintergreen

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Spiceberry

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nounWord forms: plural ˈspiceˌberries
1. 
a. 
a Caribbean tree (Eugenia rhombea) of the myrtle family, having orange or black fruit
b. 
this fruit
2. 
any of several aromatic plants, esp. wintergreen (sense 1)

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

Spiceberry

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n.
An evergreen shrub (Ardisia crenata) native to Asia, cultivated as an ornamental for its attractive foliage and clusters of bright red, long-lasting berrylike fruit. Also called coralberry.

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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