Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The wintergreen or checkerberry of North America, Gaultheria procumbens.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.), Local, U.S. The wintergreen. (Gaultheria procumbens).

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  • noun The teaberry.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun creeping woody plant of eastern North America with shiny evergreen leaves and scarlet berries
  • noun spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil

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Examples

  • Have no objection, either, to his bringing Elinor boxberry plums.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 Various

  • Maud got out of the buggy, and picked the young boxberry-leaves, and the red berries, and pulled long vines of evergreen, and gathered moss.

    The Nursery, October 1873, Vol. XIV. No. 4 Various

  • I never read yet of any maiden losing her heart on boxberry plums; though, to be sure, he might bewitch them.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 Various

  • We had boxberry bread, boxberry stews and pies, and one day, I caught a glimpse of Grandma, in her part of the Ark, frying boxberry griddle-cakes.

    Cape Cod Folks Sarah P. McLean Greene 1895

  • Wallencampers, with baskets and pails in their hands, going "boxberry plummin. '"

    Cape Cod Folks Sarah P. McLean Greene 1895

  • She turned off the main road, crept through Joshua Woodman's bars, waved away Mrs. Carter's cows, trod the short grass of the pasture, with its well-worn path running through gardens of buttercups and whiteweed, and groves of boxberry leaves and sweet fern.

    The Flag-Raising Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889

  • So she dug up, very carefully, roots of plumy fern and partridge berries with their leaves, and wintergreen and boxberry plants, to grow in her window-garden in the winter.

    The Story Hour Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889

  • Out of the tufts of boxberry leaves and plums they made the word "Welcome," which they hung over the door.

    In The Boyhood of Lincoln A Tale of the Tunker Schoolmaster and the Times of Black Hawk Hezekiah Butterworth 1872

  • Upon that the boys went to work picking boxberry leaves, which grew at the roots of the pine trees, among the soft moss and last year's cones.

    Captain Horace Sophie May 1869

  • "O, I put in spruce, or boxberry, or sarsaparilla."

    Captain Horace Sophie May 1869

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  • One for the berry listers.

    January 11, 2013