wintergreen

win·ter·green  (wntr-grn)

n.

1.

a. A low-growing, creeping evergreen plant (Gaultheria procumbens) of North America, having solitary nodding white flowers, aromatic leaves, and spicy edible scarlet berries. Also called checkerberry, teaberry.

b. An oil or a flavoring obtained from this plant.

2. Any of several similar or related plants, such as the pipsissewa.

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[Translation of Dutch wintergroen.]

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wintergreen

Noun

an evergreen shrub from which is obtained a pleasant-smelling oil that is used medicinally and for flavouring

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	wintergreen - any of several evergreen perennials of the genus Pyrola pyrola herb, herbaceous plant - a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests genus Pyrola - short-stemmed perennial herbs of cool or temperate regions: wintergreen; shinleaf false wintergreen, Pyrola americana, Pyrola rotundifolia americana - evergreen of eastern North America with leathery leaves and numerous white flowers lesser wintergreen, Pyrola minor - the common wintergreen having many-flowered racemes of pink-tinged white flowers; Europe and North America Pyrola elliptica, shinleaf, wild lily of the valley - North American evergreen with small pinkish bell-shaped flowers and oblong leaves used formerly for shinplasters Pyrola rotundifolia, wild lily of the valley - evergreen with rounded leaves and very fragrant creamy-white flowers; widely distributed in northern parts of Old and New Worlds
	2.	wintergreen - 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 checkerberry, creeping wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens, mountain tea, teaberry, ground-berry, groundberry boxberry, checkerberry, spiceberry, teaberry, wintergreen - spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil oil of wintergreen, wintergreen oil - oil or flavoring obtained from the creeping wintergreen or teaberry plant Gaultheria, genus Gaultheria - widely distributed genus of creeping or upright evergreen shrubs shrublet - dwarf shrub
	3.	wintergreen - spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil boxberry, checkerberry, spiceberry, teaberry berry - any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits; used as desserts or in making jams and jellies and preserves checkerberry, creeping wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens, mountain tea, teaberry, wintergreen, ground-berry, groundberry - 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