Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. See wintergreen.
- n. See withe rod.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The American winter-green, Gaultheria procumbens, sometimes used to flavor tea and as a substitute for tea. Also mountain-tea and Canada tea.
Wiktionary
- n. A berry which is the fruit of a small shrub native to northeastern North America, Gaultheria procumbens, also known as the Eastern teaberry, American wintergreen, boxberry, and checkerberry.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Bot.) The checkerberry.
WordNet 3.0
- n. 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
- n. spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil
Etymologies
- From the use of its leaves as a tea substitute. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Mebbe therz a tynee tuch of stromberry or teaberry in that banilly iess kreem?”
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“Typical ground cover includes lichens, mosses, bracken fern and members of the heath family (bearberry and teaberry).”
Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve, New Jersey
“Ground cover layers are also quite diverse and well developed, with bracken ferns, teaberry and moss lichen vegetation.”
Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve, New Jersey
“And in regard to the teaberry ice-cream... it's hard to explain how it tastes!”
“The closest thing to it would probably be a slight cherry flavor... but not really. lol It's just... teaberry. lol”
“Gather grasses for drying, find leaves from the teaberry bush for Blynnal, lead cart horses with loads of paving stones.”
“Sam slowly chewed his teaberry gum and gave Bubby a tight, closed-mouth smile before saying, "You bet.”
“She stopped to pick a teaberry leaf to chew, stood a minute, then went on.”
“Uncle Bill was pounced on by the Princess Giacinta and whirled off into some kind of a dance, he did not know what; round flew the room and the nobility; round flew barrels of teaberry tooth-wash, beautiful princesses, big devils of”
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
“It's cheap -- this knowing a princess for a quart of red teaberry tooth-wash, for that's what this "wine" amounts to.”
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘teaberry’.
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tea phrases /words
everything tea
Abyssinian tea, afternoon t, Algerian tea, Appalachian tea, Arabian tea, Australian tea, Barbary tea, Bencoolen tea, Blue Mountain tea, Botany Bay tea, Bourbon tea, Brazil tea and 294 more...
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Berry Me Deep In Love
Different kinds of berries. In particular it's a list of those with -berry in the name, regardless of whether they are true berries or not. According to Schlockipedia, the botanical class of berrie...
cloudberry, juneberry, whortleberry, goldenberry, apple serviceberry, allegheny shadberry, loganberry, lingonberry, huckleberry, juniper berry, blackberry, mulberry and 74 more...
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