noun
oil or flavoring obtained from the creeping wintergreen or teaberry plant
• Syn: ↑oil of wintergreen
• Substance Holonyms:
↑teaberry, ↑wintergreen, ↑checkerberry, ↑mountain tea, ↑groundberry, ↑ground-berry, ↑creeping wintergreen, ↑Gaultheria procumbens
• Substance Meronyms: ↑methyl salicylate, ↑birch oil, ↑sweet-birch oil
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noun1. : a colorless, yellowish, or reddish aromatic essential oil obtained from macerated leaves of wintergreen, composed principally of methyl salicylate, and used similarly — called also gaultheria oil; compare birch oil 2
2. : methyl salicylate
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wintergreen oil,
= oil of wintergreen. (Cf. ↑oil of wintergreen)
Useful english dictionary. 2012.