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wintergreen

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Meaning

  1. noun Any evergreen plant.
  2. noun 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)
  3. noun 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
  4. noun Gaultheria procumbens, native to North America, having solitary white flowers and aromatic leaves (checkerberry or teaberry)
  5. noun Gaultheria humifusa – alpine wintergreen
  6. noun Gaultheria ovatifolia – western teaberry or Oregon spicy wintergreen
  7. noun Chimaphila maculata – striped wintergreen, pipsissewa
  8. noun 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)

Similar words

spiceberry mountain tea pyrola teaberry boxberry checkerberry creeping wintergreen gaultheria procumbens groundberry spotted

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Word family

wintergreens

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