1. Creeping woody plant of eastern North America with shiny evergreen leaves and scarlet berries
   "boxberry formed a lush ground cover in the forest";
   - partridgeberry, twinberry, Mitchella repens
    
2. Spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil
   "They chewed on boxberry leaves for their minty flavour";
   - wintergreen, checkerberry, teaberry, spiceberry

Derived forms: boxberries

Type of: berry, vine

Part of: checkerberry, creeping wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens, genus Mitchella, groundberry, ground-berry, Mitchella, mountain tea, teaberry, wintergreen

Encyclopedia: Boxberry