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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



... now had been a wilderness truly, but a wilderness where every kind and size of growth, from the giant pine to the creeping wintergreen and shaded mosses, mingled in beautiful confusion. Here it became a desert. For the terrible forest fires, the woodsman's tragic enemy, had swept over it not long before, devastating an area of many square miles. Millions of dollars worth of valuable timber ...
— Camp and Trail - A Story of the Maine Woods • Isabel Hornibrook
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Words linked to "Wintergreen" :   shinleaf, genus Gaultheria, Gaultheria procumbens, genus Pyrola, Pyrola elliptica, herbaceous plant, herb, Pyrola rotundifolia, mountain tea, Pyrola americana, teaberry, Pyrola rotundifolia americana, berry, shrublet, wild lily of the valley, wintergreen family, Pyrola minor, Gaultheria


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