noun
- 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.
- synonyms: teaberry, wintergreen, checkerberry, mountain tea, groundberry, ground-berry, Gaultheria procumbens
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