wintergreen, boxberry, checkerberry, teaberry, spiceberry
(noun) spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil
teaberry, wintergreen, checkerberry, mountain tea, groundberry, ground-berry, creeping wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens
(noun) 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
Source: WordNet® 3.1
From the chequer tree, which has fruits of a similar appearance
checkerberry (plural checkerberries)
The teaberry, Gaultheria procumbens.
Source: Wiktionary
Check"er*ber`ry, n.; pl. Checkerberries. (Bot.)
Definition: A spicy plant and its bright red berry; the wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens). Also incorrectly applied to the partridge berry (Mitchella repens).
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
19 November 2024
(noun) bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves; burned to produce a crude soda ash
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
