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Spicy red berrylike fruit
Answer for the clue "Spicy red berrylike fruit ", 12 letters:
checkerberry
Alternative clues for the word checkerberry
Word definitions for checkerberry in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The teaberry, ''Gaultheria procumbens''.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wintergreen \Win"ter*green`\, n. (Bot.) A plant which keeps its leaves green through the winter. Note: In England, the name wintergreen is applied to the species of Pyrola which in America are called English wintergreen , and shin leaf (see Shin leaf, under ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
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 [syn: teaberry , wintergreen , mountain tea , groundberry , ground-berry , creeping wintergreen ...
Usage examples of checkerberry.
But when he saw a cluster of checkerberry plums in spring gleam withered red against gray moss, on some stony upland, he stood still and pondered.
The Member of the Haouse evidently comes from one of the lesser inland centres of civilization, where the flora is rich in checkerberries and similar bounties of nature, and the fauna lively with squirrels, wood-chucks, and the like.
In its own way it was as good as the checkerberries, and her body seemed to want it In a different way.
If she hadn't been so full (too stuffed to jump, she thought), she would have stuck her head in like a mare sticking her head into an oatsack, just to fill her nose with the delicious combined smell of the checkerberries and beechnuts.
She might have done just that if there had only been the last handful of checkerberries inside.
Then this,” and he pointed at the maskalonge, “broiled on a pointed stick, with a handful of checkerberries for dessert, and I think you and I will be about ready to begin work in earnest!
It was a charming place in summer, where one could find laurel, and checkerberries, and sassafras roots, and sit in the cool breeze, looking at the mountains across the river, and listening to the murmur of the Deerfield.
Jill's was white, with tiny scarlet leaves all over it, trimmed with red braid and buttons so like checkerberries she was tempted to eat them.