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Checkerberry

Checkerberry Meaning & Definition
Checkerberry Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of 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

Synonyms | Synonyms for Checkerberry: boxberry | creeping wintergreen | Gaultheria procumbens | groundberry | mountain tea | spiceberry | teaberry | teaberry | wintergreen | wintergreen

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

Checkerberry In Webster's Dictionary

\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}).

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