boxberry
noun
the checkerberry.
boxberries
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pluralof boxberry.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The children gathered the summer berries in season, and the autumn's plentiful and spicy store of boxberries, checkerberries, teaberries or gingerbread berries with October's brown nuts.
From Customs and Fashions in Old New England by Alice Morse Earle
In the other hand, he held out to me a basket of large, selected boxberries.
From Cape Cod Folks by Sarah P. McLean Greene
Yankee children will understand at once that I mean the checkerberries, or, as we were more accustomed to call them, the boxberries.
From A Rambler's lease by Bradford Torrey
