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Definition of Maidenhair berry
1. Noun. Slow-growing procumbent evergreen shrublet of northern North America and Japan having white flowers and numerous white fleshy rough and hairy seeds.
Group relationships: Gaultheria, Genus Gaultheria
Generic synonyms: Shrublet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Maidenhair Berry
Literary usage of Maidenhair berry
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord. Britton, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"May-June. Fruit ripe Aug.- Sept. Flavor of sweet birch. Mountain partridge-berry.
Running birch. Moxie-berry. Maidenhair-berry. 7. ..."
2. Down North on the Labrador by Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell (1911)
"... yellow cloudberry, black teaberry and white maidenhair berry formed an orchard
prepared for them by nature which appeared to them none the less generous ..."
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