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W0181200 (wĭn′tər-grēn′)n.1. a. A creeping evergreen North American plant (Gaultheria procumbens) in the heath family, having solitary nodding white flowers, aromatic leaves, and spicy edible scarlet berries. Also called checkerberry, teaberry.b. An oil or flavoring obtained from this plant or certain other plants, such as sweet birch, or produced synthetically.2. Any of several similar or related plants, especially the pipsissewas and plants of the genus Pyrola.

[Translation of Dutch wintergroen.]

wintergreen

(ˈwɪntəˌɡriːn) n1. (Plants) Also called: boxberry, checkerberry, teaberry, spiceberry or partridgeberry any of several evergreen ericaceous shrubs of the genus Gaultheria, esp G. procumbens, of E North America, which has white bell-shaped flowers and edible red berries2. (Elements & Compounds) oil of wintergreen an aromatic compound, formerly made from this and various other plants but now synthesized: used medicinally and for flavouring3. (Plants) any of various plants of the genus Pyrola, such as P. minor (common wintergreen), of temperate and arctic regions, having rounded leaves and small pink globose flowers: family Pyrolaceae. Usual US name: shinleaf 4. (Plants) any of several plants of the genera Orthilia and Moneses: family Pyrolaceae5. (Plants) chickweed wintergreen a primulaceous plant, Trientalis europaea, of N Europe and N Asia, having white flowers and leaves arranged in a whorl[C16: from Dutch wintergroen or German Wintergrün; see winter, green]

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(ˈwɪn tərˌgrin)

n. 1. a creeping evergreen shrub, Gaultheria procumbens, of the heath family, bearing white flowers, red berries, and oval leaves that yield an aromatic oil. 2. the oil itself; methyl salicylate. 3. the flavor of this oil. 4. any of various other plants of the same genus. 5. any of various small evergreen herbs of the genera Pyrola and Chimaphila. [1540–50; translation of Dutch wintergroen or German Wintergrün]

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Noun	1.	wintergreen - any of several evergreen perennials of the genus Pyrolapyrolaherb, herbaceous plant - a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pestsgenus Pyrola - short-stemmed perennial herbs of cool or temperate regions: wintergreen; shinleaffalse wintergreen, Pyrola americana, Pyrola rotundifolia americana - evergreen of eastern North America with leathery leaves and numerous white flowerslesser wintergreen, Pyrola minor - the common wintergreen having many-flowered racemes of pink-tinged white flowers; Europe and North AmericaPyrola elliptica, shinleaf, wild lily of the valley - North American evergreen with small pinkish bell-shaped flowers and oblong leaves used formerly for shinplastersPyrola rotundifolia, wild lily of the valley - evergreen with rounded leaves and very fragrant creamy-white flowers; widely distributed in northern parts of Old and New Worlds
	2.	wintergreen - creeping shrub of eastern North America having white bell-shaped flowers followed by spicy red berrylike fruit and shiny aromatic leaves that yield wintergreen oilcheckerberry, creeping wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens, mountain tea, teaberry, groundberry, ground-berryboxberry, checkerberry, spiceberry, teaberry, wintergreen - spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oiloil of wintergreen, wintergreen oil - oil or flavoring obtained from the creeping wintergreen or teaberry plantGaultheria, genus Gaultheria - widely distributed genus of creeping or upright evergreen shrubsshrublet - dwarf shrub
	3.	wintergreen - spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oilboxberry, checkerberry, spiceberry, teaberryberry - any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits; used as desserts or in making jams and jellies and preservescheckerberry, creeping wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens, mountain tea, teaberry, wintergreen, groundberry, ground-berry - 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

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wintergreen

checkerberry,

low evergreen plant (Gaultheria procumbens) of the family Ericaceae (heathheath,
in botany, common name for some members of the Ericaceae, a family of chiefly evergreen shrubs with berry or capsule fruits. Plants of the heath family form the characteristic vegetation of many regions with acid soils, particularly the moors, swamps, and mountain slopes
..... Click the link for more information. family), native to sandy and acid woods (usually of evergreens) of E North America and frequently cultivated. It has a creeping stem, erect branches, glossy, oval leaves, and small, waxy, white flowers followed by crimson fruits. The aromatic leaves and fruits are edible; the leaves are a source of wintergreen oil (now mostly obtained from the sweet, or black, birch, Betula lenta, or synthetically). The oil is used in medicine and as a flavoring. A tea has often been made from the leaves, whence two of the many names of the plant, mountain tea and teaberry. There are other species of Gaultheria found in W America and elsewhere; one of these, G. shallon, is called salal or shallon. Some pipsissewapipsissewa
, any plant of the genus Chimaphila, perennial herbs of dry wooded regions in the Northern Hemisphere. The pipsissewas, closely related to the wintergreens, have thick, shiny leaves and pinkish or white flowers. C.
..... Click the link for more information. species, of the family Pyrolaceae, are sometimes called wintergreen. True wintergreen is classified in the division MagnoliophytaMagnoliophyta
, division of the plant kingdom consisting of those organisms commonly called the flowering plants, or angiosperms. The angiosperms have leaves, stems, and roots, and vascular, or conducting, tissue (xylem and phloem).
..... Click the link for more information. , class Magnoliopsida, order Ericales, family Ericaceae.

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Shiny, waxy oval pointed leaves, white hanging bell-shaped flowers, red berries. Leaves sometimes a bit brown or red. Gives the body strength. Doesn't die in winter, stays green year round (hence the name). Eat the leaves, make tea from them. Kind of a dull mint flavor. Tea used for colds, fever, headache, kidney, stomach, rheumatism, anti-inflammatory painkiller. Berries also edible. Do not make or take wintergreen essential oil, which is very toxic. It absorbs through skin and harms kidneys and liver.

wintergreen

oil of wintergreen an aromatic compound, formerly made from this and various other plants but now synthesized: used medicinally and for flavouring

wintergreen

1. any of several evergreen ericaceous shrubs of the genus Gaultheria, esp G. procumbens, of E North America, which has white bell-shaped flowers and edible red berries 2. any of various plants of the genus Pyrola, such as P. minor (common wintergreen), of temperate and arctic regions, having rounded leaves and small pink globose flowers: family Pyrolaceae 3. any of several plants of the genera Orthilia and Moneses: family Pyrolaceae 4. chickweed wintergreen a primulaceous plant, Trientalis europaea, of N Europe and N Asia, having white flowers and leaves arranged in a whorl

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noun any of several evergreen perennials of the genus Pyrola

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noun 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

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noun spicy red berrylike fruit

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