Checkerberry

n.

1.

(Bot.) A spicy plant and its bright red berry; the wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens). Also incorrectly applied to the partridge berry (Mitchella repens).

Noun	1.	checkerberry - 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 Synonyms: creeping wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens, mountain tea, teaberry, wintergreen, ground-berry, groundberry
	2.	checkerberry - spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil Synonyms: boxberry, spiceberry, teaberry, wintergreen

boxberry, creeping wintergreen, Gaultheria, Gaultheria procumbens, genus Gaultheria, ground-berry, groundberry, mountain tea, oil of wintergreen, shrublet, spiceberry, teaberry, wintergreen, wintergreen oil