Crossword clues for checkerberry
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 Shin.) In America, the name wintergreen is given to Gaultheria procumbens, a low evergreen aromatic plant with oval leaves clustered at the top of a short stem, and bearing small white flowers followed by red berries; -- called also checkerberry, and sometimes, though improperly, partridge berry.
Chickweed wintergreen, a low perennial primulaceous herb ( Trientalis Americana); -- also called star flower.
Flowering wintergreen, a low plant ( Polygala paucifolia) with leaves somewhat like those of the wintergreen ( Gaultheria), and bearing a few showy, rose-purple blossoms.
Spotted wintergreen, a low evergreen plant ( Chimaphila maculata) with ovate, white-spotted leaves.
Wiktionary
n. The teaberry, ''Gaultheria procumbens''.
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, Gaultheria procumbens]
spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil [syn: wintergreen, boxberry, teaberry, spiceberry]
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.