crackerberry

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun creeping perennial herb distinguished by red berries and clustered leaf whorls at the tips of shoots; Greenland to Alaska

From cracker + berry.

All the little wood things--the ferns and the satin leaves and the crackerberries--have gone to sleep, just as if somebody had tucked them away until spring under a blanket of leaves. — Anne of Green Gables, L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

bunchberry, dwarf cornel, pudding berry, Cornus canadensis

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