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CHECKERBERRY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil
Synonyms:
boxberry; checkerberry; spiceberry; teaberry; wintergreen
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
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)
Sense 2
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
Synonyms:
checkerberry; creeping wintergreen; Gaultheria procumbens; ground-berry; groundberry; mountain tea; teaberry; wintergreen
Classified under:
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)
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