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BOXBERRY
wintergreen, boxberry, checkerberry, teaberry, spiceberry
(noun) spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil
partridgeberry, boxberry, twinberry, Mitchella repens
(noun) creeping woody plant of eastern North America with shiny evergreen leaves and scarlet berries
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
boxberry (plural boxberries)
The teaberry, Gaultheria procumbens.
Source: Wiktionary
Box"ber`ry, n. (Bot.)
Definition: The wintergreern. (Gaultheria procumbens). [Local, U.S.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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BACKFIRE
(verb) come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect; “Your comments may backfire and cause you a lot of trouble”; “the political movie backlashed on the Democrats”
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