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}]