groundberry

n 1: small prostrate or ascending shrub having scarlet flowers

and thin-fleshed succulent fruit resembling cranberries;

sometimes place in genus Styphelia [syn: {native

cranberry}, {cranberry heath}, {Astroloma humifusum}, {Styphelia

humifusum}]

2: creeping shrub of eastern North America having white

bell-shaped flowers followed by spicy red berrylike fruit

and shiny aromatic leaves that yield wintergreen oil [syn:

{teaberry}, {wintergreen}, {checkerberry}, {mountain tea},

{creeping wintergreen}, {Gaultheria procumbens}]