boxberry

American  

[boks-ber-ee, -buh-ree] / ˈbɒksˌbɛr i, -bə ri /

noun

• boxberries
  plural

1. the checkerberry.

2. the partridgeberry.

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boxberry British  

/ ˈbɒksbərɪ /

noun

1. the fruit of the partridgeberry or wintergreen

2. another name for partridgeberry wintergreen

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• boxberries
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of boxberry

An Americanism dating back to 1700–10; box ³ + berry

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Example Sentences

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boxberry boxberries

Upon that the boys went to work picking boxberry leaves, which grew at the roots of the pine trees, among the soft moss and last year's cones.

From Captain Horace by Sophie May

Have no objection, either, to his bringing Elinor boxberry plums.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 by Various

Out of the tufts of boxberry leaves and plums they made the word "Welcome," which they hung over the door.

From In The Boyhood of Lincoln A Tale of the Tunker Schoolmaster and the Times of Black Hawk by Hezekiah Butterworth

"O, I put in spruce, or boxberry, or sarsaparilla."

From Captain Horace by Sophie May

We had boxberry bread, boxberry stews and pies, and one day, I caught a glimpse of Grandma, in her part of the Ark, frying boxberry griddle-cakes.

From Cape Cod Folks by Sarah P. McLean Greene

In the other hand, he held out to me a basket of large, selected boxberries.

From Cape Cod Folks by Sarah P. McLean Greene

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

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

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