About The Word Wintergreen
Learn about the word Wintergreen to help solve your crossword puzzle. Discover Wintergreen definitions and meaning, origins, synonyms, related terms and more at the free Crossword Dictionary.
Wintergreen
| 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.
|
More Crossword Puzzle Words
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
Cross Word Of The Day
- Untactful ‐ lacking or showing a lack of what is fitting and considerate…
- Three-fourths ‐ three of four equal parts; "three-fourths…
- Triclinic ‐ (crystallography) having three unequal crystal axes intersecting…
- Hydrolith ‐ a salt-like binary compound (CaH2) used as a reducing agent and…
- Whip snake ‐ any of several fast-moving North American snakes with long whiplike…
- Good(p) ‐ feeling healthy and free of aches and pains; "I…
- Tic ‐ a local and habitual twitching especially…
- Field line ‐ an imaginary line in a field of force; direction of the line…
- Impale ‐ pierce with a sharp stake or point; "impale a shrimp on a skewer"…
- Charles louis de secondat ‐ French political philosopher who advocated the separation of…