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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  • One for the berry listers.

    January 11, 2013