Noun: creeping 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
"Children enjoyed the minty taste of wild creeping wintergreens";
- teaberry, wintergreen, checkerberry, mountain tea, groundberry, ground-berry, Gaultheria procumbens
Derived forms: creeping wintergreens
Type of: shrublet
Part of: Gaultheria, genus Gaultheria
Encyclopedia: Creeping wintergreen