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MOUNTAIN BOX

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• MOUNTAIN BOX (noun)
The noun MOUNTAIN BOX has 1 sense:

1. evergreen mat-forming shrub of North America and northern Eurasia having small white flowers and red berries; leaves turn red in autumn

Familiarity information: MOUNTAIN BOX used as a noun is very rare.

• MOUNTAIN BOX (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Evergreen mat-forming shrub of North America and northern Eurasia having small white flowers and red berries; leaves turn red in autumn

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Arctostaphylos uva-ursi; sandberry; sand berry; red bearberry; mountain box; mealberry; hog cranberry; creashak; common bearberry; bear's grape; wild cranberry

Hypernyms ("mountain box" is a kind of...):

bearberry (chiefly evergreen subshrubs of northern to arctic areas)

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