mountain box

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

   Synonymscommon bearberryred bearberrywild cranberrymealberryhog cranberrysand berrysandberrybear's grapecreashakArctostaphylos uva-ursi

   Broaderbearberry

Questions about mountain box

What does mountain box mean?

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

What is another word for mountain box?

Close synonyms include common bearberry, red bearberry, wild cranberry, mealberry, hog cranberry. 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 mountain box a common word?

mountain box 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.