Found 2 items, similar to checkerberry.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: checkerberry 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, ground-berry, creeping wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens ] 2: spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil [syn: wintergreen, boxberry, teaberry, spiceberry]
English → English (gcide) Definition: checkerberry Wintergreen \Win"ter*green`\, n. (Bot.) A plant which keeps its leaves green through the winter. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster]