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
• Syn:
↑teaberry, ↑wintergreen, ↑checkerberry, ↑groundberry, ↑ground-berry, ↑creeping wintergreen, ↑Gaultheria procumbens
• Hypernyms: ↑shrublet
• Member Holonyms: ↑Gaultheria, ↑genus Gaultheria
• Substance Meronyms: ↑wintergreen oil, ↑oil of wintergreen
• Part Meronyms: ↑wintergreen, ↑boxberry, ↑checkerberry, ↑teaberry, ↑spiceberry
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noun1. : wintergreen 2a
2. : an infusion of wintergreen leaves
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mountain tea noun
The American evergreen plant Gaultheria procumbens (also called wintergreen)
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Main Entry: ↑mountain
Useful english dictionary. 2012.