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Definition of Mountain tea
1. Noun. 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.
Terms within: Boxberry, Checkerberry, Spiceberry, Teaberry, Wintergreen
Terms within: Oil Of Wintergreen, Wintergreen Oil
Group relationships: Gaultheria, Genus Gaultheria
Generic synonyms: Shrublet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mountain Tea
Literary usage of Mountain tea
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Secretary of Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1879)
"The toste of its decoction is doubtless due to the tannin and volatile oil present.
3. " mountain tea," or, as it is locally known, " Blue mountain tea? ..."
2. Arboretum Et Fruticetum Britannicum: Or, The Trees and Shrubs of Britain by John Claudius Loudon (1854)
"Partridge Berry, mountain tea, Spring Winter Green, Smith s History qf bmn ...
for which reason, it is likewise known by the name of mountain tea. ..."
3. The English Illustrated Magazine (1901)
"There was nothing green certainly, save a single scrub-brush of mountain-tea. "
I suppose I *ve got to go," he added ; " the kid don't ask for much, ..."
4. Arbustrum Americanum: The American Grove, Or, An Alphabetical Catalogue of by Humphry Marshall (1785)
"There is but one Species of this Genus, viz. GAULTHERIA procumbens. Canadian Gaul-
theria, or mountain tea. ..."
5. Health at home, ; or, Hall's family doctor by William Whitty Hall (1876)
"For example, ver}' few might know what " mountain tea " was, pro claimed to be
a certain cure for cancer, yet under the name of " tea-berry," or of ..."
6. Report of the Secretary of Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1879)
"The toste of its decoction is doubtless due to the tannin and volatile oil present.
3. " mountain tea," or, as it is locally known, " Blue mountain tea? ..."
7. Arboretum Et Fruticetum Britannicum: Or, The Trees and Shrubs of Britain by John Claudius Loudon (1854)
"Partridge Berry, mountain tea, Spring Winter Green, Smith s History qf bmn ...
for which reason, it is likewise known by the name of mountain tea. ..."
8. The English Illustrated Magazine (1901)
"There was nothing green certainly, save a single scrub-brush of mountain-tea. "
I suppose I *ve got to go," he added ; " the kid don't ask for much, ..."
9. Arbustrum Americanum: The American Grove, Or, An Alphabetical Catalogue of by Humphry Marshall (1785)
"There is but one Species of this Genus, viz. GAULTHERIA procumbens. Canadian Gaul-
theria, or mountain tea. ..."
10. Health at home, ; or, Hall's family doctor by William Whitty Hall (1876)
"For example, ver}' few might know what " mountain tea " was, pro claimed to be
a certain cure for cancer, yet under the name of " tea-berry," or of ..."
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