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
How To Use mountain tea In A Sentence
- It was the old mountain teaching another brutal lesson, that the mountain and its weather does not forgive a mistake.
- He had made tea for us; it was what the monks called mountain tea, a delicious mixture of mint, floral herbs, and a stalky item reminiscent of chamomile. Scott Cairns: The Unceasing Prayer Of Mount Athos: A Short Trip To The Edge
- The leaves and flowers of Eastern teaberry (also known as checkerberry, boxberry, partridge berry, wintergreen berry, teaberry and mountain tea) have a mildly perfume scented aroma.
- Other Cretan agricultural products are carob beans, fava, mountain tea, broad beans, oregano and flax.
- The man-mountain team are all at least 6ft and bursting with brawn. The Sun
- For dessert they had chestnuts, beech-nuts, and butternuts, and for drink they used the checkerberry and hardhack, but mostly they used mountain tea and swamp chocolate-root; these two last-named articles nearly resembled those brought from foreign countries. The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, April, 1886
- It was the old mountain teaching another brutal lesson, that the mountain and its weather does not forgive a mistake.
