English Explanatory Dictionary

wintergreen

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any evergreen plant.
  2. One of various not closely related evergreen plants, including:
  3. Plants in shrub genus Gaultheria, commonly known as wintergreen, especially:
  4. Gaultheria procumbens, native to North America, having solitary white flowers and aromatic leaves (checkerberry or teaberry)
  5. Gaultheria humifusa – alpine wintergreen
  6. Gaultheria ovatifolia – western teaberry or Oregon spicy wintergreen
  7. Chimaphila maculata – striped wintergreen, pipsissewa
  8. Plants in any of several other genera in the herbaceous family Ericaceae, including:
  9. Genus Pyrola, native to northern temperate and Arctic regions.
  10. Genus Orthilia
  11. Genus Moneses
  12. Genus Chimaphila (prince's pine, pipsissewa)

Pronunciation

/ˈwɪntə(ɹ)ˌɡɹiːn/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-wintergreen.wav

Word forms

wintergreen wintergreens

Etymology

From winter + green.

Synonyms

boxberry checkerberry partridgeberry spiceberry teaberry shinleaf

Related words

pinedrops pinesap shinleaf surgical spirit

Derived words

American wintergreen chickweed wintergreen creeping wintergreen English wintergreen false wintergreen flowering wintergreen lesser wintergreen oil of wintergreen one-flowered wintergreen round-leaved wintergreen spotted wintergreen striped wintergreen umbellate wintergreen whitevein wintergreen wintergreen barberry wintergreen oil

Translations

Finnish: lamosalali German: Scheinbeere Russian: Гаультерия лежачая Spanish: siempreverde
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