Wintergreen meaning

wĭn'tər-grēn'
Any of several similar or related plants, especially the pipsissewas and plants of the genus Pyrola.
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Any of a number of similar plants, as the shinleaf or pipsissewa.
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A milkwort (Polygala paucifolia) with large, rose-lavender flowers.
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Any of several evergreen perennials of the genus Pyrola.
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A North American creeping evergreen plant, Gaultheria procumbens, having solitary white flowers and aromatic leaves; the checkerberry or teaberry.
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The spicy red berries of this plant.
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The oil, methyl salicylate, obtained from these berries.
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The aroma of the oil, methyl salicylate, however derived.
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Origin of wintergreen

  • Translation of Dutch wintergroen
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Wintergreen Sentence Examples

  • Methyl Salicylate, C,H 4 (OH) CO 2 CH 31 found in oil of wintergreen, in the oil of Viola tricolor and in the root of varieties of Polygala, is a pleasant-smelling liquid which boils at 222° C. On passing dry ammonia into the boiling ester, it gives salicylamide and dimethylamine.

  • Blue flag, snake root, ginseng, lobelia, tansy, wormwood, wintergreen, pleurisy root, plantain, burdock, sarsaparilla and horehound are among its medicinal plants.

  • chickweed wintergreen will be in flower through to August.

  • Species include serrated wintergreen Orthilia secunda and creeping lady's-tresses Goodyera repens.

  • The next morning, I pour off (and drink) the wintergreen flavored tea, leaving the twigs in the jar.

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