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twinberry
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a trailing evergreen shrub, Mitchella repens, having roundish leaves and white blossoms.
See: partridgeberry(meaning 2)
Quotations
1823
Plants [include] Twin berry. . . .
1853
That elegant little plant Mitchella repens, sometimes called partridge-berry and also twin-berry, from the scarlet fruit having the appearance of being double.