Pär'tridge-bĕr'ry, n.

n. (Bot.) A small, trailing, evergreen herb, having roundish, shining leaves, white fragrant flowers sometimes tinged with purple, and growing in pairs with the ovaries united, and producing scarlet berries which remain over winter; Mitchella repens. Gray. ☞ The name is also sometimes applied to the creeping wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens).