'Creeping snowberry' definitions:
Definition of 'creeping snowberry'
From: WordNet
noun
Slow-growing procumbent evergreen shrublet of northern North America and Japan having white flowers and numerous white fleshy rough and hairy seeds [syn: creeping snowberry, moxie plum, maidenhair berry, Gaultheria hispidula]
Definition of 'Creeping snowberry'
From: GCIDE
- Creeping \Creep"ing\, a.
- 1. Crawling, or moving close to the ground. "Every creeping thing." --Gen. vi. 20. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Growing along, and clinging to, the ground, or to a wall, etc., by means of rootlets or tendrils. [1913 Webster]
- Casements lined with creeping herbs. --Cowper. [1913 Webster]
- Ceeping crowfoot (Bot.), a plant, the Ranunculus repens.
- Creeping snowberry, an American plant ({Chiogenes hispidula}) with white berries and very small round leaves having the flavor of wintergreen. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Creeping snowberry'
From: GCIDE
- Snowberry \Snow"ber`ry\, n. (Bot.) A name of several shrubs with white berries; as, the Symphoricarpus racemosus of the Northern United States, and the Chiococca racemosa of Florida and tropical America. [1913 Webster]
- Creeping snowberry. (Bot.) See under Creeping. [1913 Webster]