teaberries

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
• plural of teaberry

Synonyms

boxberry, checkerberry, creeping wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens, ground-berry, groundberry, mountain tea, spiceberry, teaberry, wintergreen