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checkerberry
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checkerberry
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun checkerberry has 2 senses
- checkerberry(n = noun.plant) creeping wintergreen, gaultheria procumbens, ground-berry, groundberry, mountain tea, teaberry, wintergreen - 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; Array has parts: boxberry, checkerberry, spiceberry, teaberry, wintergreen
- checkerberry(n = noun.food) boxberry, spiceberry, teaberry, wintergreen - spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil; Array is a kind of berry
is a member of gaultheria, genus gaultheria
is a kind of shrublet
is a part of checkerberry, creeping wintergreen, gaultheria procumbens, ground-berry, groundberry, mountain tea, teaberry, wintergreen
CIDE DICTIONARY
checkerberry, n.
A spicy plant and its bright red berry; the wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens ). Also incorrectly applied to the partridge berry (Mitchella repens ). [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
checkerberry, n. (pl. -ies)
1 a wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens.
2 the fruit of this plant.
1 a wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens.
2 the fruit of this plant.
Etymology
checkers berries of service-tree
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