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

Etymology

Origin of boxberry

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

Example Sentences

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boxberry boxberries

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 Butterworth, Hezekiah

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

From Captain Horace by May, Sophie

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

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

I never read yet of any maiden losing her heart on boxberry plums; though, to be sure, he might bewitch them.

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

Some people call it the boxberry; and some call it wintergreen.

From The Nursery, September 1873, Vol. XIV. No. 3 by Various

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

From Cape Cod Folks by Greene, Sarah P. McLean

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 Torrey, Bradford

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 Earle, Alice Morse