wintergreen

1. Plants in shrub genus Gaultheria, commonly known as wintergreen, especially:

   (countable, uncountable)Gaultheria procumbens, native to North America, having solitary white flowers and aromatic leaves (checkerberry or teaberry)

   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

2. (countable, uncountable)Gaultheria humifusa – alpine wintergreen

3. (countable, uncountable)Gaultheria ovatifolia – western teaberry or Oregon spicy wintergreen

   spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil

4. (countable, uncountable)Chimaphila maculata – striped wintergreen, pipsissewa

5. Plants in any of several other genera in the herbaceous family Ericaceae, including:

   (countable, uncountable)Genus Pyrola, native to northern temperate and Arctic regions.

   Wintergrün

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6. (countable, uncountable)Genus Orthilia

7. (countable, uncountable)Genus Moneses

8. (countable, uncountable)Genus Chimaphila (prince's pine, pipsissewa)

9. One of various not closely related evergreen plants, including:

   (countable, uncountable)Some species of the herbaceous genus Trientalis, in family Primulaceae (chickweed wintergreen)

10. (countable, uncountable)The spicy red berries of Gaultheria procumbens.

11. (countable, uncountable)The oil, methyl salicylate, obtained from these berries.

12. (countable, uncountable)The aroma of the oil, methyl salicylate, however derived.

1. I like wintergreen toothpaste.

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2. He used flavorings from trees and plants like sassafras and sarsaparilla, wintergreen, birch bark, herbs and juniper berries.

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