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Found 3 hits - Term: wintergreen, Database: *, Strategy: exact
[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
wintergreen \win"tergreen`\, n. bot.
   a plant which keeps its leaves green through the winter.
   1913 webster

   note: in england, the name wintergreen is applied to the
         species of pyrola which in america are called
         english wintergreen, and shin leaf see shin leaf,
         under shin. in america, the name wintergreen is
         given to gaultheria procumbens, a low evergreen
         aromatic plant with oval leaves clustered at the top of
         a short stem, and bearing small white flowers followed
         by red berries; -- called also checkerberry, and
         sometimes, though improperly, partridge berry.
         1913 webster

   chickweed wintergreen, a low perennial primulaceous herb
      trientalis americana; -- also called star flower.

   flowering wintergreen, a low plant polygala paucifolia
      with leaves somewhat like those of the wintergreen
      gaultheria, and bearing a few showy, rose-purple
      blossoms.

   oil of wintergreen, an aromatic oil, consisting almost
      entirely of methyl salicylate ch3co.o.c6h4.oh,
      obtained by distillation of an extract of the wintergreen
      gaultheria procumbens; it can also be obtained from
      some other plants. it is used as a flavoring agent for
      tooth powders and pastes, sometimes combined with menthol
      or eucalyptus. it is called also oil of teaberry, oil
      of partridgeberry, and oil of gaultheria.

   spotted wintergreen, a low evergreen plant chimaphila
      maculata with ovate, white-spotted leaves.
      1913 webster + pjc
see also:
pyrola english wintergreen shin leaf shin gaultheria procumbens checkerberry 
partridge berry chickweed wintergreen trientalis americana star flower flowering wintergreen 
polygala paucifolia gaultheria oil of wintergreen ch3co.o.c6h4.oh oil of teaberry 
oil of partridgeberry oil of gaultheria spotted wintergreen chimaphila maculata 
[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
wintergreen
     n 1: any of several evergreen perennials of the genus pyrola
          syn: pyrola
     2: 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 syn:
         teaberry, checkerberry, mountain tea, groundberry,
         ground-berry, creeping wintergreen, gaultheria
        procumbens
     3: spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil syn: boxberry,
         checkerberry, teaberry, spiceberry
see also:
pyrola teaberry checkerberry mountain tea groundberry ground-berry 
creeping wintergreen gaultheria procumbens boxberry spiceberry 
[3] : U.S. Gazetteer (1990)
wintergreen, va
  zip codes: 22958


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