teaberry > define

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.
  • synonyms: wintergreen, checkerberry, mountain tea, groundberry, ground-berry, creeping wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens
• Spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil.
  • synonyms: wintergreen, boxberry, checkerberry, spiceberry