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 Snow·ber·ry n. Bot. A name of several shrubs with white berries; as, the Symphoricarpus racemosus of the Northern United States, and the Chiococca racemosa of Florida and tropical America.
 Creeping snowberry. Bot. See under Creeping.
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 Creep·ing, a.
 1. Crawling, or moving close to the ground. “Every creeping thing.”
 2. Growing along, and clinging to, the ground, or to a wall, etc., by means of rootlets or tendrils.
    Casements lined with creeping herbs.   --Cowper.
 Ceeping crowfoot Bot., a plant, the Ranunculus repens.
 Creeping snowberry, an American plant (Chiogenes hispidula) with white berries and very small round leaves having the flavor of wintergreen.
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 creeping snowberry
      n : slow-growing procumbent evergreen shrublet of northern North
          America and Japan having white flowers and numerous white
          fleshy rough-hairy seeds [syn: moxie plum, maidenhair
          berry, Gaultheria hispidula]