Gaultheria

gaultheria

(ɡɔːlˈθɪərɪə) n (Plants) any aromatic evergreen shrub of the ericaceous genus Gaultheria, of America, Asia, Australia, and New Zealand, esp the wintergreen[C19: New Latin, after Jean-François Gaultier, 18th-century Canadian physician and botanist]

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Gaultheria - widely distributed genus of creeping or upright evergreen shrubsgenus Gaultheriadilleniid dicot genus - genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbsEricaceae, family Ericaceae, heath family - heatherscreeping snowberry, Gaultheria hispidula, maidenhair berry, moxie plum - slow-growing procumbent evergreen shrublet of northern North America and Japan having white flowers and numerous white fleshy rough and hairy seedscheckerberry, 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 oilGaultheria shallon, salal, shallon - small evergreen shrub of Pacific coast of North America having edible dark purple grape-sized berries