teaberry

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

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
noun spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil

From tea + berry.

Molly, feeling a touch of rheumatism, was somewhere in the lower thicket seeking a teaberry tonic. — Wild Animals I Have Known, Ernest Thompson Seton
"Lord a bless 'em!" exclaimed the old lady, "ef de slave-buyer comes, Aunt Hominy'll take 'em to de woods an' jess git los', an' live on teaberries, slippery-ellum, haws, an' chincapins. — The Entailed Hat; Or, Patty Cannon's Times, George Alfred Townsend

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

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