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creeping snowberry

Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Snowberry \Snow"ber`ry\, n. (Bot.)
   A name of several shrubs with white berries; as, the
   {Symphoricarpus racemosus} of the Northern United States, and
   the {Chiococca racemosa} of Florida and tropical America.

   {Creeping snowberry}. (Bot.) See under {Creeping}.

Creeping \Creep"ing\, a.
   1. Crawling, or moving close to the ground. ``Every creeping
      thing.'' --Gen. vi. 20.

   2. Growing along, and clinging to, the ground, or to a wall,
      etc., by means of rootlets or tendrils.

            Casements lined with creeping herbs.  --Cowper.

   {Ceeping crowfoot} (Bot.), a plant, the {Ranunculus repens}.
      

   {Creeping snowberry}, an American plant ({Chiogenes
      hispidula}) with white berries and very small round leaves
      having the flavor of wintergreen.

Source : WordNet®

creeping snowberry
     n : slow-growing procumbent evergreen shrublet of northern North
         America and Japan having white flowers and numerous white
         fleshy rough-hairy seeds [syn: {moxie plum}, {maidenhair
         berry}, {Gaultheria hispidula}]
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