checker-berryn.
1. The fruit of Gaultheria procumbens, a small trailing plant of North America, with oval evergreen leaves and drooping white flowers; hence the plant itself; the Winter-green.
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1784 M. Cutler in Mem. Amer. Acad. (1785) I. 444 Arbutus... Foxberry. Checkerberry.
1823 J. F. Cooper Pioneers I. ix. 128 A bunch of chicker-berries.
1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin I. xvii. 282 Chewing some checkerberry-leaves.
1872 O. W. Holmes Poet at Breakfast-table i. 8 The flora is rich in checkerberries.
2. The Partridge-berry, Mitchella repens (Webster).Partridge-berry is also a name of Gaultheria: hence the confusion.
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