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Noun: spiceberry  'spIs,be-ree
  1. Shrub with coral-red berries; Japan to northern India
    - coralberry, Ardisia crenata
     
  2. Spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil
    - wintergreen, boxberry, checkerberry, teaberry

Derived forms: spiceberries

Type of: berry, bush, shrub

Part of: Ardisia, checkerberry, creeping wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens, genus Ardisia, groundberry, ground-berry, mountain tea, teaberry, wintergreen

Encyclopedia: Spiceberry