checkerberry

Noun

• spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil

• 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

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  wintergreen , boxberry , teaberry , spiceberry , mountain tea , groundberry , ground-berry , creeping wintergreen , Gaultheria procumbens