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teaberry

noun

1. 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

• Syn:

↑wintergreen, ↑checkerberry, ↑mountain tea, ↑groundberry, ↑ground-berry, ↑creeping wintergreen, ↑Gaultheria procumbens

• Hypernyms: ↑shrublet

• Member Holonyms: ↑Gaultheria, ↑genus Gaultheria

• Substance Meronyms: ↑wintergreen oil, ↑oil of wintergreen

• Part Meronyms: ↑wintergreen, ↑boxberry, ↑checkerberry, ↑spiceberry

2. spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil

• Syn: ↑wintergreen, ↑boxberry, ↑checkerberry, ↑spiceberry

• Hypernyms: ↑berry

• Part Holonyms:

↑wintergreen, ↑checkerberry, ↑mountain tea, ↑groundberry, ↑ground-berry, ↑creeping wintergreen, ↑Gaultheria procumbens

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\\ˈtē- — see berry\ noun

Etymology: tea (I) + berry; from the use of its dried leaves to make a substitute for tea

1. : checkerberry 1a

2. : creeping snowberry

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/tee"ber'ee, -beuh ree/, n., pl. teaberries.

the spicy red fruit of the American wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens.

[1790-1800; TEA + BERRY]

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teaˈberry noun

1. Wintergreen

2. A wintergreen berry

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Main Entry: ↑tea

Useful english dictionary. 2012.