Usage of "checkerberry"

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.

Usage of checkerberry in English

I came to hunt for some simples...for spearmint and checkerberry and tansy. 
 Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People 

The scent of pine-woods and checkerberry-leaves seemed to bang about her. 
 A New England Girlhood, Outlined from Memory (Beverly, MA) 

Her breath carried the keen scent of crushed checkerberry plums. 
 The Best Short Stories of 1921, and the Yearbook of the American... 

There was a twisted red-and-white stick of peppermint, pink checkerberry, clear barley- astickof every kind in the glass jars in Mr. Rose's store window. 
 Young Lucretia and Other Stories 

Many a child brought hither its spring offering of the first mitchella, or its autumn gift of checkerberries. 
 Flamsted quarries 

Nimble-toes said that they were checkerberries. 
 The Graymouse Family 

There were clam shells piled up with red checkerberries, and caddis worms on the half shell, with spicebush nubbins. 
 Woodland Tales 

"Why, it tastes like checkerberry-leaves," said Rachel. 
 The Nursery, September 1873, Vol. XIV. No. 3 

Jill's was white, with tiny scarlet leaves all over it, trimmed with red braid and buttons so like checkerberries she was tempted to eat them. 
 Jack and Jill 

"That is the checkerberry," said Paul. 
 The Nursery, September 1873, Vol. XIV. No. 3 

"I will go over on the hill and get her some young checkerberry leaves," resolved Anna, remembering how Rebby liked their sharp flavor. 
 A Little Maid of Old Maine 

"Run on ahead, girlies," said Aileen to the twins who were with her for their annual checkerberry picnic, "I'll be down in a few minutes." 
 Flamsted quarries 

Frequent collocations

Checkerberry through the time

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Meanings of checkerberry in English