Noun: mountain box
- Evergreen mat-forming shrub of North America and northern Eurasia having small white flowers and red berries; leaves turn red in autumn
"Bears feast on the mountain box fruits in late summer";
- common bearberry, red bearberry, wild cranberry, mealberry, hog cranberry, sand berry, sandberry, bear's grape, creashak, Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
Derived forms: mountain boxes
Type of: bearberry
Encyclopedia: Mountain box