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Noun: teaberry
  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
    - wintergreen, checkerberry, mountain tea, groundberry, ground-berry, creeping wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens
     
  2. Spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil
    - wintergreen, boxberry, checkerberry, spiceberry

Derived forms: teaberries

Type of: berry, shrublet

Part of: Gaultheria, genus Gaultheria

Encyclopedia: Teaberry, West Virginia