DCHP-3

pheasantberry

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.

a trailing evergreen shrub, Mitchella repens, having roundish leaves and white blossoms.

See: partridgeberry(meaning 1b)

Quotations

1921
The girls join their mothers in picking berries . . . swampberries, saskatoonberries, pembinaberries, pheasantberries, bearberries, and snakeberries.