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noun
Any evergreen plant.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable
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noun
One of various not closely related evergreen plants, including:
Plants in shrub genus Gaultheria, commonly known as wintergreen, especially:
Gaultheria procumbens, native to North America, having solitary white flowers and aromatic leaves (checkerberry or teaberry)
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noun
One of various not closely related evergreen plants, including:
Plants in shrub genus Gaultheria, commonly known as wintergreen, especially:
Gaultheria humifusa – alpine wintergreen
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noun
One of various not closely related evergreen plants, including:
Plants in shrub genus Gaultheria, commonly known as wintergreen, especially:
Gaultheria ovatifolia – western teaberry or Oregon spicy wintergreen
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noun
One of various not closely related evergreen plants, including:
Plants in shrub genus Gaultheria, commonly known as wintergreen, especially:
Chimaphila maculata – striped wintergreen, pipsissewa
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One of various not closely related evergreen plants, including:
Plants in any of several other genera in the herbaceous family Ericaceae, including:
Genus Pyrola, native to northern temperate and Arctic regions.
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noun
One of various not closely related evergreen plants, including:
Plants in any of several other genera in the herbaceous family Ericaceae, including:
Genus Orthilia
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noun
One of various not closely related evergreen plants, including:
Plants in any of several other genera in the herbaceous family Ericaceae, including:
Genus Moneses
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noun
One of various not closely related evergreen plants, including:
Plants in any of several other genera in the herbaceous family Ericaceae, including:
Genus Chimaphila (prince's pine, pipsissewa)
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noun
One of various not closely related evergreen plants, including:
Some species of the herbaceous genus Trientalis, in family Primulaceae (chickweed wintergreen)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
The spicy red berries of Gaultheria procumbens.
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noun
The oil, methyl salicylate, obtained from these berries.
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noun
The aroma of the oil, methyl salicylate, however derived.
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noun
spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: boxberry, checkerberry, teaberry, spiceberry
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Broader terms: berry
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
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: teaberry, checkerberry, mountain tea, groundberry, ground-berry, creeping wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens
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Broader terms: shrublet
noun
any of several evergreen perennials of the genus Pyrola
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: pyrola
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Broader terms: herb, herbaceous plant
Narrower terms: false wintergreen, Pyrola americana, Pyrola rotundifolia americana, lesser wintergreen, Pyrola minor, wild lily of the valley, shinleaf, Pyrola elliptica, Pyrola rotundifolia
History
Etymology tree English winter Proto-Germanic *grōniz Proto-West Germanic *grōnī Old English grēne Middle English grene English green English wintergreen From winter + green.
Across languages
12 source translations are retained for this English entry.
