checkerberry
noun
the red fruit of the American wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens.
checkerberries
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pluralof checkerberry.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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"They will not think of such a thing," returned the peddler, picking the checkerberries that grew on the thin soil where he sat, and very deliberately chewing them, leaves and all, to refresh his mouth.
From The Spy by James Fenimore Cooper
Many a child brought hither its spring offering of the first mitchella, or its autumn gift of checkerberries.
From Flamsted quarries by G. Patrick Nelson
Let her learn the difference between huckleberries and blackberries, learn where checkerberries grow thickest and dig up sweet flag root with her own hands as country children do.
From Dr. Hardhack's Prescription A Play for Children in Four Acts by Katharine McDowell Rice
She and her younger sister Annie were allowed one April day, by their mother, to go into the woods just before school hours, to gather checkerberries.
From Lives of Girls Who Became Famous by Sarah Knowles Bolton
Lizzy walked away, and began hunting checkerberries with an unusual ardor.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 10, August, 1858 by Various
