Search Result for "styphelia humifusum":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. small prostrate or ascending shrub having scarlet flowers and succulent fruit resembling cranberries; sometimes placed in genus Styphelia;
[syn: native cranberry, groundberry, ground-berry, cranberry heath, Astroloma humifusum, Styphelia humifusum]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

groundberry \groundberry\ n. A small prostrate or ascending shrub (Astroloma humifusum) having scarlet flowers and thin-fleshed succulent fruit resembling cranberries; sometimes placed in the genus Styphelia. Syn: native cranberry, cranberry heath, Astroloma humifusum, Styphelia humifusum. [WordNet 1.5] 2. A creeping shrub of eastern North America (Gaultheria procumbens) having white bell-shaped flowers followed by spicy red berrylike fruit and shiny aromatic leaves that yield wintergreen oil. Syn: teaberry, wintergreen, checkerberry, mountain tea, creeping wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens. [WordNet 1.5]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Styphelia humifusum n 1: small prostrate or ascending shrub having scarlet flowers and succulent fruit resembling cranberries; sometimes placed in genus Styphelia [syn: native cranberry, groundberry, ground-berry, cranberry heath, Astroloma humifusum, Styphelia humifusum]