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Teaberry

Teaberry \Tea"ber`ry\, n. (Bot.) The checkerberry.

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teaberry

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.

WordNet
teaberry
  1. 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 wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens]

  2. spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil [syn: wintergreen, boxberry, checkerberry, spiceberry]

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.