Definitionen
1.NounAny evergreen plant.
2.NounOne 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)
Gaultheria humifusa – alpine wintergreen
Gaultheria ovatifolia – western teaberry or Oregon spicy wintergreen
Chimaphila maculata – striped wintergreen, pipsissewa
Plants in any of several other genera in the herbaceous family Ericaceae, including:
Genus Pyrola, native to northern temperate and Arctic regions.
Genus Orthilia
Genus Moneses
Genus Chimaphila (prince's pine, pipsissewa)
Some species of the herbaceous genus Trientalis, in family Primulaceae (chickweed wintergreen)
3.NounPlants 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)
Gaultheria humifusa – alpine wintergreen
Gaultheria ovatifolia – western teaberry or Oregon spicy wintergreen
Chimaphila maculata – striped wintergreen, pipsissewa
4.NounGaultheria procumbens, native to North America, having solitary white flowers and aromatic leaves (checkerberry or teaberry)
5.NounGaultheria humifusa – alpine wintergreen
6.NounGaultheria ovatifolia – western teaberry or Oregon spicy wintergreen
7.NounChimaphila maculata – striped wintergreen, pipsissewa
8.NounPlants in any of several other genera in the herbaceous family Ericaceae, including:
Genus Pyrola, native to northern temperate and Arctic regions.
Genus Orthilia
Genus Moneses
Genus Chimaphila (prince's pine, pipsissewa)
9.NounGenus Pyrola, native to northern temperate and Arctic regions.
10.NounGenus Orthilia
11.NounGenus Moneses
12.NounGenus Chimaphila (prince's pine, pipsissewa)
13.NounSome species of the herbaceous genus Trientalis, in family Primulaceae (chickweed wintergreen)
14.NounThe spicy red berries of Gaultheria procumbens.
15.NounThe oil, methyl salicylate, obtained from these berries.
16.NounThe aroma of the oil, methyl salicylate, however derived.