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boxberry

[ boks-ber-ee, -buh-ree ]

noun

plural boxberries.
  1. the checkerberry.
  2. the partridgeberry.


boxberry

/ ˈ²úÉ’°ì²õ²úÉ™°ùɪ /

noun

  1. the fruit of the partridgeberry or wintergreen
  2. another name for partridgeberry wintergreen
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of boxberry1

An Americanism dating back to 1700–10; box 3 + berry
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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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