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 teaberry In A Sentence
- Typical ground cover includes lichens, mosses, bracken fern and members of the heath family (bearberry and teaberry). Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve, New Jersey
- 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.
- Because checkerberry was once popular for making a tea, another name for it is eastern teaberry.
