1.
[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]