CHECKERBERRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does checkerberry mean? 

• CHECKERBERRY (noun)
  The noun CHECKERBERRY has 2 senses:

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

2. spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil

  Familiarity information: CHECKERBERRY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHECKERBERRY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

checkerberry; creeping wintergreen; Gaultheria procumbens; ground-berry; groundberry; mountain tea; teaberry; wintergreen

Hypernyms ("checkerberry" is a kind of...):

shrublet (dwarf shrub)

Meronyms (parts of "checkerberry"):

boxberry; checkerberry; spiceberry; teaberry; wintergreen (spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil)

Meronyms (substance of "checkerberry"):

oil of wintergreen; wintergreen oil (oil or flavoring obtained from the creeping wintergreen or teaberry plant)

Holonyms ("checkerberry" is a member of...):

Gaultheria; genus Gaultheria (widely distributed genus of creeping or upright evergreen shrubs)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

boxberry; checkerberry; spiceberry; teaberry; wintergreen

Hypernyms ("checkerberry" is a kind of...):

berry (any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits; used as desserts or in making jams and jellies and preserves)

Holonyms ("checkerberry" is a part of...):

checkerberry; creeping wintergreen; Gaultheria procumbens; ground-berry; groundberry; mountain tea; teaberry; wintergreen (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)