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Wintergreen

noun

Any of several evergreen perennials of the genus Pyrola. Synonym: pyrola.

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. Synonyms: checkerberry, creeping wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens, ground-berry, groundberry, mountain tea, teaberry.

Spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil. Synonyms: boxberry, checkerberry, spiceberry, teaberry.

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"Wintergreen" Quotes from Famous Books

... month at Hot Springs in the wintergreen heart of Virginia, and whatever Louis may have felt in his heart, of his right to the privacy of these honeymoon days, was carefully belied on his lips, and at Alma's depriving him now and then of his wife's company, packing her off to rest when ...

— The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various

Words linked to "Wintergreen" : Pyrola minor, Pyrola rotundifolia americana, berry, Gaultheria, genus Pyrola, herb, herbaceous plant, shinleaf, genus Gaultheria, Pyrola elliptica, wild lily of the valley, Pyrola americana, Pyrola rotundifolia, shrublet