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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The checkerberries and beechnuts were just ripe, and 142 very good.
From A Northern Countryside by Rosalind Richards
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
"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
I knew the spot upon the hill Where checkerberries could be found, I knew the rushes near the mill Where pickerel lay that weighed a pound!
From A Little Book of Western Verse by Eugene Field
It was too dark now to look for checkerberries and violet buds.
From Minnie; or, The Little Woman A Fairy Story by Caroline Snowden Guild
