The Collaborative International Dictionary
Snowberry \Snow"ber`ry\, n. (Bot.) A name of several shrubs with white berries; as, the Symphoricarpus racemosus of the Northern United States, and the Chiococca racemosa of Florida and tropical America.
Creeping snowberry. (Bot.) See under Creeping.
Creeping \Creep"ing\, a.
Crawling, or moving close to the ground. ``Every creeping thing.''
--Gen. vi. 20.-
Growing along, and clinging to, the ground, or to a wall, etc., by means of rootlets or tendrils.
Casements lined with creeping herbs.
--Cowper.Ceeping crowfoot (Bot.), a plant, the Ranunculus repens.
Creeping snowberry, an American plant ( Chiogenes hispidula) with white berries and very small round leaves having the flavor of wintergreen.
WordNet
n. slow-growing procumbent evergreen shrublet of northern North America and Japan having white flowers and numerous white fleshy rough-hairy seeds [syn: moxie plum, maidenhair berry, Gaultheria hispidula]
Wikipedia
Creeping snowberry is a common name for several plants and may refer to:
- Gaultheria hispidula
- Symphoricarpos hesperius
- Symphoricarpos mollis
Usage examples of "creeping snowberry".
It is commonly called the creeping snowberry, but I like better its official title of chiogenes,--the snow-born.