checkerberry
Plural: checkerberries
Noun
- 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
- spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil
- The teaberry, Gaultheria procumbens.
Origin / Etymology
From the chequer tree, which has fruits of a similar appearance.
Synonyms
boxberry, creeping wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens, ground-berry, groundberry, mountain tea, spiceberry, teaberry, wintergreen
Scrabble Score: 28
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