English dictionary

checkerberry

/'/tS//E/k/@/r,b/E/r/i/

Definitions, examples, synonyms and antonyms from WordNet 3.0.

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.plant

Synonyms creeping wintergreen gaultheria procumbens ground-berry groundberry mountain tea teaberry wintergreen

Source: WordNet 3.0
spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil

noun.food

Synonyms boxberry spiceberry teaberry wintergreen

Source: WordNet 3.0
A spicy plant and its bright red berry; the wintergreen (<i>Gaultheria procumbens</i>). Also incorrectly applied to the partridge berry (<i>Mitchella repens</i>).

noun

Source: webster1913