Definitions of checkerberry
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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
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synonyms:
Gaultheria procumbens, creeping wintergreen, ground-berry, groundberry, mountain tea, teaberry, wintergreen
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type of:
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shrublet
dwarf shrub
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shrublet
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spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil
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synonyms:
boxberry, spiceberry, teaberry, wintergreen
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type of:
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berry
any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits; used as desserts or in making jams and jellies and preserves
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berry
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