crackerberry

crackerberry
crackerberry crackerberry n. a creeping red-berried perenial herb ({Cornus canadensis}) distinguished by clustered leaf whorls at tips of shoots; Greenland to Alaska.

Syn: bunchberry, dwarf cornel, pudding berry, {Cornus canadensis}. [WordNet 1.5]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.

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