maidenhair berry

1. 1.

   slow-growing procumbent evergreen shrublet of northern North America and Japan having white flowers and numerous white fleshy rough and hairy seeds

   Synonymscreeping snowberrymoxie plumGaultheria hispidula

   Broadershrublet

   Part ofGaultheria

Questions about maidenhair berry

What does maidenhair berry mean?

maidenhair berry means "slow-growing procumbent evergreen shrublet of northern North America and Japan having white flowers and numerous white fleshy rough and hairy seeds".

What is another word for maidenhair berry?

Close synonyms include creeping snowberry, moxie plum, Gaultheria hispidula. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is maidenhair berry a common word?

maidenhair berry is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.