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Wintergreen

noun
1.
Any of several evergreen perennials of the genus Pyrola.  Synonym: 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.  Synonyms: checkerberry, creeping wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens, ground-berry, groundberry, mountain tea, teaberry.
3.
Spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil.  Synonyms: boxberry, checkerberry, spiceberry, teaberry.



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"Wintergreen" Quotes from Famous Books



... not many minutes before the two advancing forms glimmered among the leaves. As he sprang forward to meet them, Miss Betsy Lavender suddenly exclaimed,—"Well, I never, Martha! here's wintergreen!" and was down on her knees, on the dead leaves, with her long nose nearly ...
— The Story Of Kennett • Bayard Taylor



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



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