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Definition of Checkerberry
1. 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.
Exact synonyms: Creeping Wintergreen, Gaultheria Procumbens, Ground-berry, Groundberry, Mountain Tea, Teaberry, Wintergreen
Terms within: Boxberry, Spiceberry, Teaberry, Wintergreen
Terms within: Oil Of Wintergreen, Wintergreen Oil
Group relationships: Gaultheria, Genus Gaultheria
Generic synonyms: Shrublet
Terms within: Boxberry, Spiceberry, Teaberry, Wintergreen
Terms within: Oil Of Wintergreen, Wintergreen Oil
Group relationships: Gaultheria, Genus Gaultheria
Generic synonyms: Shrublet
2. Noun. Spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil.
Exact synonyms: Boxberry, Spiceberry, Teaberry, Wintergreen
Generic synonyms: Berry
Group relationships: Creeping Wintergreen, Gaultheria Procumbens, Ground-berry, Groundberry, Mountain Tea, Teaberry, Wintergreen
Generic synonyms: Berry
Group relationships: Creeping Wintergreen, Gaultheria Procumbens, Ground-berry, Groundberry, Mountain Tea, Teaberry, Wintergreen
Definition of Checkerberry
1. n. A spicy plant and its bright red berry; the wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens). Also incorrectly applied to the partridge berry (Mitchella repens).
Definition of Checkerberry
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