About The Word Wintergreen

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Wintergreen

Wintergreen Meaning & Definition
Wintergreen Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Wintergreen?

[n] spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil
[n] 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
[n] any of several evergreen perennials of the genus Pyrola

Synonyms | Synonyms for Wintergreen: boxberry | checkerberry | checkerberry | creeping wintergreen | Gaultheria procumbens | groundberry | mountain tea | pyrola | spiceberry | teaberry | teaberry

Related Terms | Find terms related to Wintergreen:

See Also | berry | boxberry | creeping wintergreen | false wintergreen | Gaultheria | Gaultheria procumbens | genus Gaultheria | genus Pyrola | groundberry | herb | herbaceous plant | lesser wintergreen | mountain tea | oil of wintergreen | Pyrola americana | Pyrola elliptica | Pyrola minor | Pyrola rotundifolia | Pyrola rotundifolia americana | shinleaf | shrublet | spiceberry | wild lily of the valley | wintergreen | wintergreen | wintergreen oil

Wintergreen In Webster's Dictionary

\Win"ter*green`\, n. (Bot.) A plant which keeps its leaves green through the winter. Note: In England, the name wintergreen is applied to the species of {Pyrola} which in America are called {English wintergreen}, and {shin leaf} (see Shin leaf, under {Shin}.) In America, the name wintergreen is given to {Gaultheria procumbens}, a low evergreen aromatic plant with oval leaves clustered at the top of a short stem, and bearing small white flowers followed by red berries; -- called also {checkerberry}, and sometimes, though improperly, {partridge berry}. {Chickweed wintergreen}, a low perennial primulaceous herb ({Trientalis Americana}); -- also called {star flower}. {Flowering wintergreen}, a low plant ({Polygala paucifolia}) with leaves somewhat like those of the wintergreen ({Gaultheria}), and bearing a few showy, rose-purple blossoms. {Spotted wintergreen}, a low evergreen plant ({Chimaphila maculata}) with ovate, white-spotted leaves.

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