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wintergreen |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Wintergreen \Win"ter*green`\, n. (Bot.) A plant which keeps its leaves green through the winter. 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}. {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. {Spotted wintergreen}, a low evergreen plant ({Chimaphila maculata}) with ovate, white-spotted leaves. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: 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}, {creeping wintergreen}, {Gaultheria procumbens}] 3: spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil [syn: {boxberry}, {checkerberry}, {teaberry}, {spiceberry}] From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: Wintergreen, VA Zip code(s): 22958
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