Source : 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}).

Source : 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}]