Meaning of Wintergreen | Babel Free

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1. Any evergreen plant.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
2. One of various not closely related evergreen plants, including:
   countable, uncountable
3. Plants in shrub genus Gaultheria, commonly known as wintergreen, especially:
   countable, uncountable
4. Gaultheria procumbens, native to North America, having solitary white flowers and aromatic leaves (checkerberry or teaberry)
   countable, uncountable
5. Gaultheria humifusa – alpine wintergreen
   countable, uncountable
6. Gaultheria ovatifolia – western teaberry or Oregon spicy wintergreen
   countable, uncountable
7. Chimaphila maculata – striped wintergreen, pipsissewa
   countable, uncountable
8. Plants in any of several other genera in the herbaceous family Ericaceae, including:
   countable, uncountable
9. Genus Pyrola, native to northern temperate and Arctic regions.
   countable, uncountable
10. Genus Orthilia
    countable, uncountable
11. Genus Moneses
    countable, uncountable
12. Genus Chimaphila (prince's pine, pipsissewa)
    countable, uncountable
13. Some species of the herbaceous genus Trientalis, in family Primulaceae (chickweed wintergreen)
    countable, uncountable
14. The spicy red berries of Gaultheria procumbens.
    countable, uncountable
15. The oil, methyl salicylate, obtained from these berries.
    countable, uncountable
16. The aroma of the oil, methyl salicylate, however derived.
    countable, uncountable

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