noun (pl. -ries)
a creeping evergreen North American shrub of the heath family, with spiny scented leaves and waxy white flowers. Also called wintergreen.
- Gaultheria procumbens, family Ericaceae.
- the edible red fruit of this plant.
ORIGIN late 18th cent.: from checkers or chequers [berries of the service tree] (so named from their color) + berry.
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seriously, what are the checkerberries of life?
i love your blog title, description and the picture. way cool.i’m going to go checkaberry my email.
In order to learn what the checkerberries of life are, you must check-a-very often to this blog.
Kinda sounds like your throwing berrys at us…. Chunk-a-berry.
[...] Okay, just for fun I keep looking for a way to learn what a Checkerberry tastes like. So, I did a random search and came across a group of individuals who were apparently even more eager than I to discover a vender of the syrup or extract. (View the site) It appears that the main taste is that of wintergreen, which is not really a surprise if you read the description in Check-a-What. I suppose it is a very common taste that we all know, but just call something else. A comment made by one of the folks on the site was that it was slightly different than normal wintergreen; however, I bet it was just because of the other ingredients. [...]