TEABERRY

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

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Etymology

Noun

teaberry (plural teaberries)

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.

A pinkish-white edible berry which grows in the Falkland Islands, where the fruits are harvested annually by Islanders to make cakes, confectionary and pavlovas. On the South American mainland the leaves are brewed for tea (Myrteola nummularia).

Synonyms

• boxberry

• checkerberry

• partridgeberry

Anagrams

• betrayer

Source: Wiktionary

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Tea"ber`ry, n. (Bot.)

Definition: The checkerberry.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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