NOUN
- 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
- spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil
How To Use checkerberry In A Sentence
- There were checkerberry-pipe and licorice-pipe and sassafras-pipe, and -- how Wort's eyes did glisten and his mouth water as he imagined the different kinds there! The Knights of the White Shield Up-the-Ladder Club Series, Round One Play
- The raw eggs tasted good to the hungry girls, and the good corn-bread and spicy berries and tender checkerberry leaves, with cool water to drink, made them both feel refreshed and rested, and ready for the remaining distance to Chandler's River settlement. A Little Maid of Old Maine
- Then, suddenly, she remembered that Rebecca was at home ill, and that she had entirely forgotten her, and the young checkerberry leaves she had intended picking for her sister. A Little Maid of Old Maine
- They looked for the story in the windings of the checkerberry-vine and blue-eyed periwinkle, on the lichens curiously growing on the boles of aged trees; but for all these they had no dictionary. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861
- The leaves and flowers of Eastern teaberry (also known as checkerberry, boxberry, partridge berry, wintergreen berry, teaberry and mountain tea) have a mildly perfume scented aroma.
- I will go over on the hill and get her some young checkerberry leaves," resolved Anna, remembering how Rebby liked their sharp flavor. A Little Maid of Old Maine
- Both boys breathed deep of the piney fragrance and filled their mouths with pungent "checkerberry" leaves. Still Jim
- Because checkerberry was once popular for making a tea, another name for it is eastern teaberry.
- Charlie's fat hand a long and toothsome piece of checkerberry pipe stem! The Knights of the White Shield Up-the-Ladder Club Series, Round One Play
- Ground pine and "checkerberry" grew abundantly in the grove. Still Jim
