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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