wintergreen
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
wintergreen (plural wintergreens)
- (obsolete) Any evergreen plant.
- One of various not closely related evergreen plants, including:
- Plants in shrub genus Gaultheria, commonly known as wintergreen, especially:
- Gaultheria procumbens, native to North America, having solitary white flowers and aromatic leaves (checkerberry or teaberry)
- Gaultheria humifusa – alpine wintergreen
- Gaultheria ovatifolia – western teaberry or Oregon spicy wintergreen
- Chimaphila maculata – striped wintergreen, pipsissewa
- Plants in any of several other genera in the herbaceous family Ericaceae, including:
- Genus Pyrola, native to northern temperate and Arctic regions.
- Genus Orthilia
- Genus Moneses
- Genus Chimaphila (prince's pine, pipsissewa)
- Some species of the herbaceous genus Trientalis, in family Primulaceae (chickweed wintergreen)
- Plants in shrub genus Gaultheria, commonly known as wintergreen, especially:
- The spicy red berries of Gaultheria procumbens.
- The oil, methyl salicylate, obtained from these berries.
- The aroma of the oil, methyl salicylate, however derived.
Synonyms edit
- (perennial of the genus Pyrola): shinleaf
- (Gaultheria procumbens): boxberry, checkerberry, partridgeberry, spiceberry, teaberry
Derived terms edit
- American wintergreen (Pyrola americana)
- chickweed wintergreen
- creeping wintergreen
- English wintergreen
- false wintergreen
- flowering wintergreen
- lesser wintergreen
- oil of wintergreen
- one-flowered wintergreen
- round-leaved wintergreen
- spotted wintergreen (Chimaphila maculata)
- striped wintergreen
- whitevein wintergreen
- wintergreen barberry
- wintergreen oil
Translations edit
evergreen — see evergreen
evergreen perennial of the genus Pyrola
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Gaultheria procumbens
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See also edit
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
wintergreen m (plural wintergreens)
- wintergreen (oil)
Further reading edit
- “wintergreen”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.