n. the creeping wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens, of eastern Canada.
- 1852  (1881)  The little creeping wintergreen, with its scarlet berries, that grows on the dry flats or sandy hills, which the Canadians call spice-berry, she showed them was good to eat. . . .
- 1952  Before the bagh apple has run its course, green blueberries, spice berries and moss blackberries make it necessary to continue the castor oil.