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MOUNTAIN BOX
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Evergreen mat-forming shrub of North America and northern Eurasia having small white flowers and red berries; leaves turn red in autumn
Synonyms:
Arctostaphylos uva-ursi; bear's grape; common bearberry; creashak; hog cranberry; mealberry; mountain box; red bearberry; sand berry; sandberry; wild cranberry
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Hypernyms ("mountain box" is a kind of...):
bearberry (chiefly evergreen subshrubs of northern to Arctic areas)