Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small creeping plant, the Mitchella repens, growing in North America.
- noun The American wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A spicy plant and its bright red berry; the wintergreen (
Gaultheria procumbens ). Also incorrectly applied to the partridge berry (Mitchella repens ).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
teaberry , Gaultheria procumbens.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- 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
- noun spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Both boys breathed deep of the piney fragrance and filled their mouths with pungent "checkerberry" leaves.
Still Jim Honor�� Morrow 1910
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Ground pine and "checkerberry" grew abundantly in the grove.
Still Jim Honor�� Morrow 1910
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Charlie's fat hand a long and toothsome piece of checkerberry pipe stem!
The Knights of the White Shield Up-the-Ladder Club Series, Round One Play Edward A. Rand
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"Now I will have a fine surprise for her when she awakes," and the little girl tiptoed noiselessly back to the edge of the woods, where she had noticed a quantity of checkerberry leaves.
A Little Maid of Old Maine Alice Turner Curtis
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They looked for the story in the windings of the checkerberry-vine and blue-eyed periwinkle, on the lichens curiously growing on the boles of aged trees; but for all these they had no dictionary.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861 Various
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There were checkerberry-pipe and licorice-pipe and sassafras-pipe, and -- how Wort's eyes did glisten and his mouth water as he imagined the different kinds there!
The Knights of the White Shield Up-the-Ladder Club Series, Round One Play Edward A. Rand
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There were many crimson berries still clinging to the vines, and Anna picked these carefully, using her cap for a basket, and gathering a quantity of the young checkerberry leaves.
A Little Maid of Old Maine Alice Turner Curtis
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Then, suddenly, she remembered that Rebecca was at home ill, and that she had entirely forgotten her, and the young checkerberry leaves she had intended picking for her sister.
A Little Maid of Old Maine Alice Turner Curtis
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The raw eggs tasted good to the hungry girls, and the good corn-bread and spicy berries and tender checkerberry leaves, with cool water to drink, made them both feel refreshed and rested, and ready for the remaining distance to Chandler's River settlement.
A Little Maid of Old Maine Alice Turner Curtis
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"I will go over on the hill and get her some young checkerberry leaves," resolved Anna, remembering how Rebby liked their sharp flavor.
A Little Maid of Old Maine Alice Turner Curtis
madmouth commented on the word checkerberry
If Chubby and Chuck got married, they wouldn't need a hyphen for the surname
November 13, 2009
bilby commented on the word checkerberry
Madz has nailed this one.
November 16, 2009