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鹿蹄草;其果实
资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Checkerberry \Check"er*ber`ry\ (-b[e^]r"r[y^]), n.; pl.
{Checkerberries}. (Bot.)
A spicy plant and its bright red berry; the wintergreen
({Gaultheria procumbens}). Also incorrectly applied to the
partridge berry ({Mitchella repens}).
资料来源 : WordNet®
checkerberry
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: {teaberry}, {wintergreen}, {mountain tea}, {groundberry},
{ground-berry}, {creeping wintergreen}, {Gaultheria
procumbens}]
2: spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil [syn: {wintergreen},
{boxberry}, {teaberry}, {spiceberry}]