| 单词 | checkerberry |
| 释义 | checkerberry (once / 97681 pages) n WORD FAMILY checkerberry: checkerberries USAGE EXAMPLESHaving some portion of the floral envelopes attached to the pericarp to form the fruit, as in the checkerberry, the mulberry, and the pineapple. Webster, Noah, Webster's Unabridged Dictionary(2012) It was too dark now to look for checkerberries and violet buds. Guild, Caroline Snowden, Minnie; or, The Little Woman—A Fair...(2011) Yankee children will understand at once that I mean the checkerberries, or, as we were more accustomed to call them, the boxberries. Torrey, Bradford, A Rambler's lease(2011) 1n 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 Syn|Hyper Gaultheria procumbens, creeping wintergreen, ground-berry, groundberry, mountain tea, teaberry, wintergreen shrublet dwarf shrub 2n spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil Syn|Hyper boxberry, spiceberry, teaberry, wintergreen berry any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits; used as desserts or in making jams and jellies and preserves |
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