wintergreen
Noun
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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)
- Gaultheria humifusa – alpine wintergreen
- Gaultheria ovatifolia – western teaberry or Oregon spicy wintergreen
- Chimaphila maculata – striped wintergreen
- Plants in any of several genera in the herbaceous family Ericaceae, including:
- Genus Pyrola, native to northern temperate and Arctic regions.
- Genus Orthilia
- Genus Moneses
- Genus Chimaphila (prince's pine)
- Some species of the herbaceous genus Trientalis, 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.
- (perennial of the genus Pyrola) shinleaf
- (Gaultheria procumbens) boxberry, checkerberry, partridgeberry, spiceberry, teaberry
- French: pirole, pyrole
- German: Wintergrün
- German: Scheinbeere
- Russian: Гаультерия лежачая
- Spanish: siempreverde
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