noun
1. creeping woody plant of eastern North America with shiny evergreen leaves and scarlet berries
• Syn: ↑partridgeberry, ↑boxberry, ↑Mitchella repens
• Hypernyms: ↑vine
• Member Holonyms: ↑Mitchella, ↑genus Mitchella
2. shrubby honeysuckle with purple flowers; western North America
• Syn: ↑Lonicera involucrata
• Hypernyms: ↑honeysuckle
• Member Holonyms: ↑Lonicera, ↑genus Lonicera
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\\ˈ ̷ ̷- — see berry\ noun1. : a shrubby No. American honeysuckle (Lonicera involucrata) with purple involucrate flowers
2. : partridgeberry
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/twin"ber'ee, -beuh ree/, n., pl. twinberries.
1. the partridgeberry, Mitchella repens.
2. a North American honeysuckle shrub, Lonicera involucrata, having involucrate flowers of various colors.
[1815-25, Amer. TWIN1 + BERRY]
Useful english dictionary. 2012.