Meaning of CHECKERBERRY
| Pronunciation: | | 'chekur`beree
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- [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
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| | Synonyms: | | 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 | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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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