SPICEBERRY

wintergreen, boxberry, checkerberry, teaberry, spiceberry

(noun) spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil

coralberry, spiceberry, Ardisia crenata

(noun) shrub with coral-red berries; Japan to northern India

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

spiceberry (plural spiceberries)

A compact flowering plant, Ardisia crenata, native to East Asia.

Its fruit, a glossy, bright red drupe.

Synonyms

• coralberry

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

21 January 2025

TRACE

(verb) follow, discover, or ascertain the course of development of something; “We must follow closely the economic development is Cuba”; “trace the student’s progress”; “trace one’s ancestry”


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Coffee Trivia

According to Guinness World Records, the most massive cup of coffee contained 22,739.14 liters and was created by Alcaldía Municipal de Chinchiná (Colombia) at Parque de Bolívar, Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia, on 15 June 2019. Fifty people worked for more than a month to build this giant cup. The drink prepared was Arabic coffee.

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