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spiceberry †
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
the creeping wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens, of eastern Canada.
Quotations
1852
The little creeping wintergreen, with its scarlet berries, that grows on the dry flats or sandy hills, which the Canadians call spice-berry, she showed them was good to eat. . . .
1952
Before the bagh apple has run its course, green blueberries, spice berries and moss blackberries make it necessary to continue the castor oil.