mountain tea

Questions about mountain tea

What does mountain tea mean?

mountain tea means "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".

What is another word for mountain tea?

Close synonyms include teaberry, wintergreen, checkerberry, groundberry, ground-berry. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mountain tea a common word?

mountain tea is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.