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checkerberry
CIDE DICTIONARY
checkerberry, n.
A spicy plant and its bright red berry; the wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens ). Also incorrectly applied to the partridge berry (Mitchella repens ). [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
checkerberry, n. (pl. -ies)
1 a wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens.
2 the fruit of this plant.
1 a wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens.
2 the fruit of this plant.
Etymology
checkers berries of service-tree
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