creeping snowberry

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creeping snowberry - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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.
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     Creeping snowberry. (Bot.) See under Creeping.
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  Creeping \Creep"ing\, a.
     1. Crawling, or moving close to the ground. "Every creeping
        thing." --Gen. vi. 20.
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     2. Growing along, and clinging to, the ground, or to a wall,
        etc., by means of rootlets or tendrils.
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              Casements lined with creeping herbs.  --Cowper.
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     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.
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creeping snowberry - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  creeping snowberry
      n 1: slow-growing procumbent evergreen shrublet of northern
           North America and Japan having white flowers and numerous
           white fleshy rough and hairy seeds [syn: creeping snowberry
           , moxie plum, maidenhair berry, Gaultheria hispidula
           ]