Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A creeping evergreen perennial plant (Mitchella repens) of eastern North America, having small white flowers and scarlet berries. Also called twinberry.
Wiktionary
- n. A common name used of various plants including: squaw wine (Mitchella repens), teaberry (Gaultheria procumbens), and lingonberry (Vaccinium vitis-idaea).
- n. The berry of such a plant.
WordNet 3.0
- n. creeping woody plant of eastern North America with shiny evergreen leaves and scarlet berries
Etymologies
- partridge + berry. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The combination of white outer and red base makes me think of a partridgeberry flower/fruit mash-up.”
“Once at the table I loaded the pancakes with partridgeberry jam and butter and gobbled them.”
“Everyone, except Mr. Blair, was sitting around the table drinking tea and eating biscuits with partridgeberry jam.”
“I also love partridgeberries, so we had to have something with partridgeberry for dessert.”
“Sometimes it's partridgeberry pie or crisp; this time it was partridgeberry cheesecake.”
“This morning it was only misting, so after partridgeberry pancakes in Woody Point, we went to The Tablelands for a guided walk.”
“The jam is partridgeberry, which tastes similar to cranberry.”
“REPUBLIC OF NEWFOUNDLAND - Heavenly pound cake filled with partridgeberry and bakeapple preserves and frosted with green, white and pink buttercream, NL style!”
“Her best sellers are her Republic of Newfoundland cupcakes, pound cake filled with Purity partridgeberry or bakeapple jam and frosted with green, white and pink icing.”
“On a go forward basic, quite frankly, I'll be working to get the partridgeberry muffin back on the menu at every Tim Horton's in the Federation.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘partridgeberry’.
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Berry Me Deep In Love
Different kinds of berries. In particular it's a list of those with -berry in the name, regardless of whether they are true berries or not. According to Schlockipedia, the botanical class of berrie...
cloudberry, juneberry, whortleberry, goldenberry, apple serviceberry, allegheny shadberry, loganberry, lingonberry, huckleberry, juniper berry, blackberry, mulberry and 74 more...
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berry neat
very nice enticing, berrilicious words
bearberry, sugarberry, jamberry, checkerberry, foxberry, farkleberry, spiceberry, inkberry, crowberry, wolfberry, thimbleberry, aleberry and 69 more...
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Flora
fenugreek, verbena, saxifrage, arbutus, calendula, nasturtium, lobelia, hellebore, rhododendron, philodendron, bellflower, heuchera and 449 more...
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Outlander series words
A place for me to keep words I found (or found anew) while reading Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series. (Culling my enormous "Learned (or Encountered) in Reading" list.)
gralloch, yeuk, corpse-candle, saprophytic, baldachin, Kermanshah, celandine, tynchal, quaich, mesentery, basidium, dittany and 244 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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Another day, a whole nother list
rump, spot on, flank, outflank, rank, bedeck, leafhopper, apocope, academic, set-to, point of no return, cloy and 210 more...
Tweets
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ruzuzu See also partridge-berry. Sep 2, 2010
chained_bear "And yet as he struggled through the growth of sumac and partridgeberry, he knew even better that this place could swallow him without a second's hesitation."
—Diana Gabaldon, The Fiery Cross (NY: Bantam Dell, 2001), 1040 Jan 28, 2010