Noun: mountain tea
- 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
"Children enjoyed the minty taste of wild mountain teas";
- teaberry, wintergreen, checkerberry, groundberry, ground-berry, creeping wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens
Derived forms: mountain teas
Type of: shrublet
Part of: Gaultheria, genus Gaultheria
Encyclopedia: Mountain tea