Found 2 items, similar to Wintergreen.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: wintergreen
wintergreen
n 1: any of several evergreen perennials of the genus Pyrola
[syn:
pyrola]
2: 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 [syn:
teaberry,
checkerberry,
mountain tea,
groundberry,
ground-berry,
creeping wintergreen,
Gaultheria procumbens
]
3: spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil [syn:
boxberry,
checkerberry,
teaberry,
spiceberry]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Wintergreen
Wintergreen
\Win"ter*green`\, n. (Bot.)
A plant which keeps its leaves green through the winter.
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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.
[1913 Webster]
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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