boxberry n 1: creeping woody plant of eastern North America with shiny evergreen leaves and scarlet berries [syn: {partridgeberry}, {boxberry}, {twinberry}, {Mitchella repens}] 2: spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil [syn: {wintergreen}, {boxberry}, {checkerberry}, {teaberry}, {spiceberry}]
Boxberry \Box"ber`ry\, n. (Bot.) The wintergreen. ({Gaultheria procumbens}). [Local, U.S.] [1913 Webster]