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Meanings of teaberry 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
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.
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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 teaberry in English
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.
6
It was Judith Pacewalk's teaberry gown.
7
She was wearing the teaberry gown, and she would attend to her own affairs as mistress of the house.
8
It is not teaberry color.
9
It's cheap-thisknowing a princess for a quart of red teaberry tooth-wash ,forthat's what this "wine" amounts to.
10
So you see, my dears, Judith Pacewalk never wore her teaberry gown, in which, I believe, she would have been mistress of Cobhurst.
11
They're off to Teaberry Lane on the Number Four.'
12
He paid for a pack of Teaberry in the gift shop and regarded his billfold.
13
In those days- Idon'tknow how it is now-Pascalvillewas the greatest place for teaberries.
14
"Well, well, Miss Teaberry," he said, "you are getting on bravely.
15
Far more important, Jerome visits frequently, and Holly is an even more frequent guest at the Robinson home on Teaberry Lane.
16
"How do you like me in the teaberry gown?"
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