Noun: wintergreen 'win-tu(r),green
- 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 wintergreens";
- teaberry, checkerberry, mountain tea, groundberry, ground-berry, creeping wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens
- Any of several evergreen perennials of the genus Pyrola
"wintergreen plants were scattered throughout the coniferous forest floor";
- pyrola
- Spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil
"They chewed on wintergreen leaves for their minty flavour";
- boxberry, checkerberry, teaberry, spiceberry
Derived forms: wintergreens
Type of: berry, herb, herbaceous plant, shrublet
Part of: Gaultheria, genus Gaultheria, genus Pyrola
Encyclopedia: Wintergreen, Texas