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wintergreen

Pronunciation: /ˈwɪntə(ɹ)ˌɡɹiːn/

The English word “wintergreen” has 13 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. Any evergreen plant.
  2. Gaultheria procumbens, native to North America, having solitary white flowers and aromatic leaves (checkerberry or teaberry)
  3. Gaultheria humifusa – alpine wintergreen
  4. Gaultheria ovatifolia – western teaberry or Oregon spicy wintergreen
  5. Chimaphila maculata – striped wintergreen, pipsissewa
  6. Genus Pyrola, native to northern temperate and Arctic regions.
  7. Genus Orthilia
  8. Genus Moneses
  9. Genus Chimaphila (prince's pine, pipsissewa)
  10. Some species of the herbaceous genus Trientalis, in family Primulaceae (chickweed wintergreen)
  11. The spicy red berries of Gaultheria procumbens.
  12. The oil, methyl salicylate, obtained from these berries.
  13. The aroma of the oil, methyl salicylate, however derived.

Etymology

From winter + green.

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