teaberry Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. 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
    wintergreen; ground-berry; groundberry; Gaultheria procumbens; checkerberry; creeping wintergreen; mountain tea.
  2. noun spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil
    spiceberry; boxberry; wintergreen; checkerberry.

WordNet


Tea"ber`ry noun
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) The checkerberry.

Webster 1913