Meaning of WINTERGREEN
| Pronunciation: | | 'wintu`green
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- [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
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| | Synonyms: | | boxberry, checkerberry, checkerberry, creeping wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens, groundberry, mountain tea, pyrola, spiceberry, teaberry, teaberry |
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| | 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 | |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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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