partridgeberry

noun, plural par·tridge·ber·ries.

1. a North American trailing plant, Mitchella repens, of the madder family, having roundish evergreen leaves, fragrant white flowers, and scarlet berries.

noun plural -ries

1. Also called: boxberry, twinberry a creeping woody rubiaceous plant, Mitchella repens, of E North America with small white fragrant flowers and scarlet berries
2. the berry of the wintergreen
3. another name for wintergreen (def. 1)