wintergreen
Pronunciation: /ˈwɪntə(ɹ)ˌɡɹiːn/
The English word “wintergreen” has 13 meanings listed here.
noun
- Any evergreen plant.
- 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, pipsissewa
- Genus Pyrola, native to northern temperate and Arctic regions.
- Genus Orthilia
- Genus Moneses
- Genus Chimaphila (prince's pine, pipsissewa)
- Some species of the herbaceous genus Trientalis, in family Primulaceae (chickweed wintergreen)
- The spicy red berries of Gaultheria procumbens.
- The oil, methyl salicylate, obtained from these berries.
- The aroma of the oil, methyl salicylate, however derived.
Etymology
From winter + green.
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