What does "wintergreen" mean?
Any evergreen plant.
Wintergreen
/ˈwɪntə(ɹ)ˌɡɹiːn/ noun
noun ·Moderate ·College level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: Any evergreen plant.
- Grammar: wintergreen is listed as noun.
- Nearest alternatives: teaberry, boxberry, checkerberry, creeping wintergreen.
- Useful contrasts: deciduous plant, flavorless, nonwintergreen.
- Usage evidence: He used flavorings from trees and plants like sassafras and sarsaparilla, wintergreen, birch bark, herbs and juniper berries.
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 Any evergreen plant. countable, obsolete, uncountable
- 2 spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil wordnet
- 3 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) countable, uncountable
- 4 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 wordnet
- 5 One of various not closely related evergreen plants, including:; Plants in shrub genus Gaultheria, commonly known as wintergreen, especially:; Gaultheria humifusa – alpine wintergreen countable, uncountable
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- 6 any of several evergreen perennials of the genus Pyrola wordnet
- 7 One of various not closely related evergreen plants, including:; Plants in shrub genus Gaultheria, commonly known as wintergreen, especially:; Gaultheria ovatifolia – western teaberry or Oregon spicy wintergreen countable, uncountable
- 8 One of various not closely related evergreen plants, including:; Plants in shrub genus Gaultheria, commonly known as wintergreen, especially:; Chimaphila maculata – striped wintergreen, pipsissewa countable, uncountable
- 9 One of various not closely related evergreen plants, including:; Plants in any of several other genera in the herbaceous family Ericaceae, including:; Genus Pyrola, native to northern temperate and Arctic regions. countable, uncountable
- 10 One of various not closely related evergreen plants, including:; Plants in any of several other genera in the herbaceous family Ericaceae, including:; Genus Orthilia countable, uncountable
- 11 One of various not closely related evergreen plants, including:; Plants in any of several other genera in the herbaceous family Ericaceae, including:; Genus Moneses countable, uncountable
- 12 One of various not closely related evergreen plants, including:; Plants in any of several other genera in the herbaceous family Ericaceae, including:; Genus Chimaphila (prince's pine, pipsissewa) countable, uncountable
- 13 One of various not closely related evergreen plants, including:; Some species of the herbaceous genus Trientalis, in family Primulaceae (chickweed wintergreen) countable, uncountable
- 14 The spicy red berries of Gaultheria procumbens. countable, uncountable
- 15 The oil, methyl salicylate, obtained from these berries. countable, uncountable
- 16 The aroma of the oil, methyl salicylate, however derived. countable, uncountable
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Example
"He used flavorings from trees and plants like sassafras and sarsaparilla, wintergreen, birch bark, herbs and juniper berries."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "wintergreen"?
Common synonyms include: teaberry, boxberry, checkerberry, creeping wintergreen, spiceberry, aromatic.
How do you use "wintergreen" in a sentence?
He used flavorings from trees and plants like sassafras and sarsaparilla, wintergreen, birch bark, herbs and juniper berries.
How do you pronounce "wintergreen"?
Pronounced /ˈwɪntə(ɹ)ˌɡɹiːn/.
Etymology
From winter + green.