Hypertext Webster Gateway: "checkerberry"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Wintergreen \Win"ter*green`\, n. (Bot.)
A plant which keeps its leaves green through the winter.

Note: In England, the name wintergreen is applied to the
species of {Pyrola} which in America are called
{English wintergreen}, and {shin leaf} (see Shin leaf,
under {Shin}.) In America, the name wintergreen is
given to {Gaultheria procumbens}, a low evergreen
aromatic plant with oval leaves clustered at the top of
a short stem, and bearing small white flowers followed
by red berries; -- called also {checkerberry}, and
sometimes, though improperly, {partridge berry}.

{Chickweed wintergreen}, a low perennial primulaceous herb
({Trientalis Americana}); -- also called {star flower}.

{Flowering wintergreen}, a low plant ({Polygala paucifolia})
with leaves somewhat like those of the wintergreen
({Gaultheria}), and bearing a few showy, rose-purple
blossoms.

{Spotted wintergreen}, a low evergreen plant ({Chimaphila
maculata}) with ovate, white-spotted leaves.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Checkerberry \Check"er*ber`ry\ (-b[e^]r"r[y^]), n.; pl.
{Checkerberries}. (Bot.)
A spicy plant and its bright red berry; the wintergreen
({Gaultheria procumbens}). Also incorrectly applied to the
partridge berry ({Mitchella repens}).

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

checkerberry
n 1: 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 [syn: {teaberry}, {wintergreen}, {mountain tea}, {groundberry},
{creeping wintergreen}, {Gaultheria procumbens}]
2: spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil [syn: {wintergreen},
{boxberry}, {teaberry}, {spiceberry}]


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