checkerberry Meaning, Definition & Usage

  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
    teaberry; wintergreen; ground-berry; groundberry; Gaultheria procumbens; creeping wintergreen; mountain tea.
  2. noun spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil
    spiceberry; boxberry; teaberry; wintergreen.

WordNet

Check"er*ber`ry noun
Wordforms
plural Checkerberries
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) A spicy plant and its bright red berry; the wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens). Also incorrectly applied to the partridge berry (Mitchella repens).

Webster 1913