About The Word Checkerberry
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Checkerberry
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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 Related Terms | Find terms related to Checkerberry: 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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