Definitions for: Checkerberry


[n] spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil
[n] creeping shrub of eastern North America having white bell-shaped flowers followed by spicy red berrylike fruit and shiny aromatic leaves that yield wintergreen oil



Webster (1913) Definition: Check"er*ber`ry (-b[e^]r"r[y^]), n.; pl.
Checkerberries. (Bot.)
A spicy plant and its bright red berry; the wintergreen
(Gaultheria procumbens). Also incorrectly applied to the
partridge berry (Mitchella repens).

Synonyms: boxberry, creeping wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens, groundberry, mountain tea, spiceberry, teaberry, teaberry, wintergreen, wintergreen

See Also: berry, boxberry, checkerberry, checkerberry, creeping wintergreen, Gaultheria, Gaultheria procumbens, genus Gaultheria, groundberry, mountain tea, oil of wintergreen, shrublet, spiceberry, wintergreen oil

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