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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
Answer for the clue "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 ", 8 letters:
teaberry
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Word definitions for teaberry in dictionaries
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: wintergreen , checkerberry , mountain tea , groundberry , ground-berry , creeping ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A berry which is the fruit of a small shrub native to northeastern North America, ''Gaultheria procumbens'', also known as the eastern teaberry, American wintergreen, boxberry, and checkerberry.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Teaberry \Tea"ber`ry\, n. (Bot.) The checkerberry.
Usage examples of teaberry.
Marguerite buy saltwater taffy, molasses and teaberry and root beer flavors.
I found there were still plants under the snow, and I would dig down and get teaberry leaves and wintergreen.
I scooped under the snow for teaberry plants to boil down and pour over snowballs for dessert.
Whitney recalled her teaberry and fished in her pocket to produce one of the fragrant leaves and pop it into her mouth.
She turned her head and blew the chewed teaberry leaf from her mouth for a masculine bit of emphasis as she finished.
Gather grasses for drying, find leaves from the teaberry bush for Blynnal, lead cart horses with loads of paving stones.
Crabnutt talked about Teaberry, curling, and then worked his way right back to Phillips cross slot screwdrivers.
About four-thirty Christmas Eve I hung a small red cluster of teaberries on the deerskin door.
The taste was tangy-sweet, reminding her not of Teaberry gum but of Cranapple juice, just poured from a bottle kept cold in the refrigerator.