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 ground-berry ground-berry

noun

  • creeping shrub of eastern North America having white bell-shaped flowers followed by spicy red berrylike fruit and shiny aromatic leaves that yield wintergreen oil  ( checkerberry, creeping wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens, ground-berry, groundberry, mountain tea, teaberry, wintergreen )
    creeping shrub of eastern North America having white bell-shaped flowers followed by spicy red berrylike fruit and shiny aromatic leaves that yield wintergreen oil
  • small prostrate or ascending shrub having scarlet flowers and succulent fruit resembling cranberries; sometimes placed in genus Styphelia  ( Astroloma humifusum, cranberry heath, ground-berry, groundberry, native cranberry, Styphelia humifusum )
    small prostrate or ascending shrub having scarlet flowers and succulent fruit resembling cranberries; sometimes placed in genus Styphelia


  •  Dianthus barbatus Dianthus barbatus

    noun

  • Eurasian pink widely cultivated for its flat-topped dense clusters of varicolored flowers  ( Dianthus barbatus, sweet William )
    Eurasian pink widely cultivated for its flat-topped dense clusters of varicolored flowers


  •  Neanderthal Neanderthal

    adj

  • relating to or belonging to or resembling Neanderthal man  ( Neandertal, Neanderthal, Neanderthalian )
    relating to or belonging to or resembling Neanderthal man
     Neanderthal skull
    Neanderthal skull
  • noun

  • extinct robust human of Middle Paleolithic in Europe and western Asia  ( Homo sapiens neanderthalensis, Neandertal, Neandertal man, Neanderthal, Neanderthal man )
    extinct robust human of Middle Paleolithic in Europe and western Asia
  • adj

  • () ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance  ( boorish, loutish, neandertal, oafish, swinish, neanderthal )
    ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance
     was boorish and insensitive
    was boorish and insensitive
     the loutish manners of a bully
    the loutish manners of a bully
     her stupid oafish husband
    her stupid oafish husband
     aristocratic contempt for the swinish multitude
    aristocratic contempt for the swinish multitude


  •  Homyel Homyel

    noun

  • industrial city of Belarus to the southeast of Minsk  ( Gomel, Homel, Homyel )
    industrial city of Belarus to the southeast of Minsk