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boxberry
[ boks-ber-ee, -buh-ree ]
noun
plural boxberries.
- the checkerberry.
- the partridgeberry.
boxberry
/ ˈ²úÉ’°ì²õ²úÉ™°ùɪ /
noun
- the fruit of the partridgeberry or wintergreen
- another name for partridgeberry wintergreen
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Yankee children will understand at once that I mean the checkerberries, or, as we were more accustomed to call them, the boxberries.
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Out of the tufts of boxberry leaves and plums they made the word "Welcome," which they hung over the door.
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"O, I put in spruce, or boxberry, or sarsaparilla."
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I never read yet of any maiden losing her heart on boxberry plums; though, to be sure, he might bewitch them.
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Some people call it the boxberry; and some call it wintergreen.
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