wintergreen
English
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Etymology
Noun
wintergreen (plural wintergreens)
- (obsolete) Any evergreen plant.
- One of various unrelated evergreen plants, including:
- Plants in shrub genus Gaultheria, commonly known as wintergreen, especially:
- Gaultheria procumbens, native to North America, having solitary white flowers and aromatic leaves (checkerberry or teaberry)
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- Plants in any of several genera in the herbaceous family Ericaceae, including:
- Genus Pyrola, native to northern temperate and Arctic regions.
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- Some species of the herbaceous genus Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template., in family Primulaceae (chickweed wintergreen)
- Plants in shrub genus Gaultheria, commonly known as wintergreen, especially:
- The spicy red berries of Gaultheria procumbens.
- The oil, methyl salicylate, obtained from these berries.
- The aroma of the oil, methyl salicylate, however derived.
Synonyms
- (perennial of the genus Pyrola): shinleaf
- (Gaultheria procumbens): boxberry, checkerberry, partridgeberry, spiceberry, teaberry
Derived terms
- American wintergreen
- chickweed wintergreen
- creeping wintergreen
- English wintergreen
- false wintergreen
- flowering wintergreen
- lesser wintergreen
- oil of wintergreen
- one-flowered wintergreen(Please check if this is already defined at target. Replace
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- striped wintergreen
- wintergreen barberry
- wintergreen oil
Related terms
Translations
evergreen — see evergreen
evergreen perennial of the genus Pyrola
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Gaultheria procumbens
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