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
   "Children enjoyed the minty taste of wild teaberries";
   - wintergreen, checkerberry, mountain tea, groundberry, ground-berry, creeping wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens
    
2. Spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil
   "They chewed on teaberry leaves for their minty flavour";
   - wintergreen, boxberry, checkerberry, spiceberry

Derived forms: teaberries

Type of: berry, shrublet

Part of: Gaultheria, genus Gaultheria

Encyclopedia: Teaberry, Kentucky