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Partridgeberry

noun
1.
Creeping woody plant of eastern North America with shiny evergreen leaves and scarlet berries.  Synonyms: boxberry, Mitchella repens, twinberry.






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"Partridgeberry" Quotes from Famous Books



... quiet. "You are welcome," they say; "the north wind is gone to sleep; we are rocking him in our cradles. Sit down and be quiet from the cold." At the feet of these slumberous old pines we find many of our last summer's friends looking as good as new. The small, round-leafed partridgeberry weaves its viny mat, and lays out its scarlet fruit; and here are blackberry vines with leaves still green, though with a bluish tint, not unlike what invades mortal noses in such weather. Here, too, are the bright, varnished leaves of the Indian pine, and the vines of feathery ...
— The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings • Harriet Beecher Stowe



Words linked to "Partridgeberry" :   vine, genus Mitchella, twinberry, Mitchella



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