Definition of checkerberry Checkerberry

check•er•ber•ry

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Noun

checkerberry - 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
  teaberry, wintergreen, mountain tea, groundberry, ground-berry, creeping wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens
  shrublet dwarf shrub
  gaultheria, genus gaultheria widely distributed genus of creeping or upright evergreen shrubs
  boxberry, checkerberry, spiceberry, teaberry, wintergreen 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
checkerberry - spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil
  wintergreen, boxberry, teaberry, spiceberry
  berry any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits; used as desserts or in making jams and jellies and preserves
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  • checkerberry (n.)
    A spicy plant and its bright red berry; the wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens). Also incorrectly applied to the partridge berry (Mitchella repens).

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