box huckleberry

box huckleberry
a nearly prostrate evergreen huckleberry shrub, Gaylussacia brachycera, of central to eastern North America, having short clusters of white or pink flowers and blue fruit. Also called juniper berry.
[1905-10, Amer.]

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