teaberry

n 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 [syn: {wintergreen}, {checkerberry}, {mountain tea},

{groundberry}, {creeping wintergreen}, {Gaultheria

procumbens}]

2: spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil [syn: {wintergreen},

{boxberry}, {checkerberry}, {spiceberry}]