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}]