wintergreen : Idioms & Phrases

• a low perennial primulaceous herb (Trientalis Americana); also called star flower.

Webster 1913

• noun 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
  teaberry; wintergreen; ground-berry; groundberry; Gaultheria procumbens; checkerberry; mountain tea.
  

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• noun evergreen of eastern North America with leathery leaves and numerous white flowers
  Pyrola rotundifolia americana; Pyrola americana.
  

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• noun common trailing perennial milkwort of eastern North America having leaves like wintergreen and usually rosy-purple flowers with winged sepals
  fringed polygala; gaywings; bird-on-the-wing; Polygala paucifolia.
  

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• a low plant (Polygala paucifolia) with leaves somewhat like those of the wintergreen (Gaultheria), and bearing a few showy, rose-purple blossoms.

Webster 1913

• noun the common wintergreen having many-flowered racemes of pink-tinged white flowers; Europe and North America
  Pyrola minor.
  

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• noun oil or flavoring obtained from the creeping wintergreen or teaberry plant
  oil of wintergreen.
  

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• noun delicate evergreen dwarf herb of north temperate regions having a solitary white terminal flower; sometimes placed in genus Pyrola
  one-flowered pyrola; Moneses uniflora; Pyrola uniflora.
  

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• a low evergreen plant (Chimaphila maculata) with ovate, white-spotted leaves.

Webster 1913

• noun evergreen herbs of temperate regions: genera Pyrola, Chimaphila, Moneses, Orthilia
  family Pyrolaceae; Pyrolaceae.
  

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• noun oil or flavoring obtained from the creeping wintergreen or teaberry plant
  oil of wintergreen.
  

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