Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An eastern Asian shrub (Ardisia crenata) having numerous, coral-red fleshy fruit.
- n. Coralberry.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The checkerberry or wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens.
Wiktionary
- n. A compact flowering plant, Ardisia crenata, native to East Asia.
- n. Its fruit, a glossy, bright red drupe.
WordNet 3.0
- n. spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil
- n. shrub with coral-red berries; Japan to northern India
Etymologies
- spice + berry (Wiktionary)
Examples
“In the fall, it is red with the bright berries and dark box-shaped leaves of a species of creeping winter-green, that the Indians call spiceberry; the leaves are highly aromatic, and it is medicinal as well as agreeable to the taste and smell.”
“The Makah generally season salmon with only salt and black pepper or spiceberry.”
“The basket was of reeds soaked in spiceberry juice, the odor intended to drive insects from the herbs, dried fruits, and oils in the pots.”
“A stand of spiceberry hid Aybas, as it had hidden Wylla and her father two nights before.”
“Halfway across, he saw two figures half-hidden in a stand of spiceberry bush.”
“Some of the ketchups were red (cherry and spiceberry), one was made from tomatoes (yellow, from the greenmarket outside the restaurant's door) and two (oyster and anchovy) were brightly fishy.”
“the top 2 (Anna Griffin) were from fabricworm(who really cannot be beaten on speed of mailing and service), the blue is a Kaffe dot, bought from just fabric, the awesome Michael Miller quarter dot (yes, the dot is the size of a quarter - it's quite beautiful) and the orange one (which is a windham basic brights) are from spiceberry cottage”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘spiceberry’.
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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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spice
zest, clowe-gilofre, bespice, piquance, star anise, epice, eugenia aromaticum, macis, tanginess, pimenta dioica, fenugreek, Geri Halliwell and 34 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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Behr Paint Colors
Names used for Behr Paints in spring of 2008. I'm curious to see if Behr gives the same colors different names in other years, so I've tagged each color with its Behr product number. It turns out t...
billowy clouds, soft lace, victorian pearl, china cup, soft muslin, bleached shell, belgian cream, chamois cloth, natural linen, popped corn, divine pleasure, vanilla delight and 283 more...
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