Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The American winter-green, Gaultheria procumbens, sometimes used to flavor tea and as a substitute for tea. Also
mountain-tea and Canada tea.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) The checkerberry.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
berry which is thefruit of a small shrub native to northeastern North America, Gaultheria procumbens, also known as the Eastern teaberry, American wintergreen,boxberry , andcheckerberry .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- 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
- noun spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Mebbe therz a tynee tuch of stromberry or teaberry in that banilly iess kreem?
Tutor Kitty - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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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 2007
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And in regard to the teaberry ice-cream... it's hard to explain how it tastes!
Newmarket fencing tournament results Teena in Toronto 2007
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The closest thing to it would probably be a slight cherry flavor... but not really. lol It's just... teaberry. lol
Newmarket fencing tournament results Teena in Toronto 2007
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Ground cover layers are also quite diverse and well developed, with bracken ferns, teaberry and moss lichen vegetation.
Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve, New Jersey 2007
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Gather grasses for drying, find leaves from the teaberry bush for Blynnal, lead cart horses with loads of paving stones.
Fall of Angels Modesitt, L. E. 1996
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Sam slowly chewed his teaberry gum and gave Bubby a tight, closed-mouth smile before saying, "You bet."
The End of the Pier Grimes, Martha 1994
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She stopped to pick a teaberry leaf to chew, stood a minute, then went on.
Every Living Thing Cynthia Rylant 1985
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She stopped to pick a teaberry leaf to chew, stood a minute, then went on.
Every Living Thing Cynthia Rylant 1985
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She stopped to pick a teaberry leaf to chew, stood a minute, then went on.
Every Living Thing Cynthia Rylant 1985
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