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Noun: mountain box
  1. Evergreen mat-forming shrub of North America and northern Eurasia having small white flowers and red berries; leaves turn red in autumn
    - 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