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Meanings of checkerberry in English
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.
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Examples for "wintergreen"
Examples for "wintergreen"
1
He sat staring at the brook; he chewed wintergreen leaves no longer.
2
Flavor the pink mass with wintergreen and the white one with peppermint.
3
Some people call it the boxberry; and some call it wintergreen.
4
She took some leaves of the wintergreen and chewed them to calm herself.
5
Methyl Salicylate Another mild analgesic, this is synthesized oil of wintergreen.
1
The teaberry gown was too long for Miriam, and too large in every way.
2
Molly, feeling a touch of rheumatism, was somewhere in the lower thicket seeking a teaberry tonic.
3
After dinner Miriam went up to her room, where upon the bed lay Judith Pacewalk's teaberry gown.
4
She is now the head of the house, and it is she who should wear the teaberry gown.
5
Miriam, attired in her teaberry gown, came up from the Cobhurst kitchen, and walked out toward the garden.
1
Some people call it the boxberry; and some call it wintergreen.
2
Have no objection, either, to his bringing Elinor boxberry plums.
3
I never read yet of any maiden losing her heart on boxberry plums; though, to be sure, he might bewitch them.
4
Boxberry, fever-bush, sweet fern, and horseradish make a good and healthy diet-drink.
5
'O, he don't bring me nigh boxberries enough,' says Elinor, laughing.
1
The old lady made hot corn bread and brewed a pot of mountain tea.
Usage of checkerberry in English
1
I came to hunt for some simples...for spearmint and checkerberry and tansy.
2
The scent of pine-woods and checkerberry-leaves seemed to bang about her.
3
Her breath carried the keen scent of crushed checkerberry plums.
4
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.
5
Many a child brought hither its spring offering of the first mitchella, or its autumn gift of checkerberries.
6
Nimble-toes said that they were checkerberries.
7
There were clam shells piled up with red checkerberries, and caddis worms on the half shell, with spicebush nubbins.
8
"Why, it tastes like checkerberry-leaves," said Rachel.
9
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.
10
"That is the checkerberry," said Paul.
11
"I will go over on the hill and get her some young checkerberry leaves," resolved Anna, remembering how Rebby liked their sharp flavor.
12
"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."
Frequent collocations
Checkerberry through the time