Defenition of the word wintergreen

• Defenition of the word wintergreen

  • 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
  • spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil
  • any of several evergreen perennials of the genus Pyrola

Synonyms for the word wintergreen

• • boxberry
  • checkerberry
  • creeping wintergreen
  • Gaultheria procumbens
  • groundberry
  • mountain tea
  • pyrola
  • spiceberry
  • teaberry

Meronymys for the word wintergreen

• • boxberry
  • checkerberry
  • creeping wintergreen
  • Gaultheria
  • Gaultheria procumbens
  • genus Gaultheria
  • genus Pyrola
  • ground-berry
  • groundberry
  • mountain tea
  • oil of wintergreen
  • spiceberry
  • teaberry
  • wintergreen
  • wintergreen oil

Hyponyms for the word wintergreen

• • false wintergreen
  • lesser wintergreen
  • Pyrola americana
  • Pyrola elliptica
  • Pyrola minor
  • Pyrola rotundifolia
  • Pyrola rotundifolia americana
  • shinleaf
  • wild lily of the valley

Hypernyms for the word wintergreen

• • berry
  • herb
  • herbaceous plant
  • shrublet

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