Wintergreen

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Wintergreen \Win"ter*green`\, n. (Bot.)
     A plant which keeps its leaves green through the winter.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     Note: In England, the name wintergreen is applied to the
           species of {Pyrola} which in America are called


           {English wintergreen}, and {shin leaf} (see Shin leaf,
           under {Shin}.) In America, the name wintergreen is
           given to {Gaultheria procumbens}, a low evergreen
           aromatic plant with oval leaves clustered at the top of
           a short stem, and bearing small white flowers followed
           by red berries; -- called also {checkerberry}, and
           sometimes, though improperly, {partridge berry}.
           [1913 Webster]
  
     {Chickweed wintergreen}, a low perennial primulaceous herb
        ({Trientalis Americana}); -- also called {star flower}.
  
     {Flowering wintergreen}, a low plant ({Polygala paucifolia})
        with leaves somewhat like those of the wintergreen
        ({Gaultheria}), and bearing a few showy, rose-purple
        blossoms.
  
     {oil of wintergreen}, An aromatic oil, consisting almost
        entirely of methyl salicylate ({CH3CO.O.C6H4.OH}),
        obtained by distillation of an extract of the wintergreen
        ({Gaultheria procumbens}); it can also be obtained from
        some other plants. It is used as a flavoring agent for
        tooth powders and pastes, sometimes combined with menthol
        or eucalyptus. It is called also {oil of teaberry}, {oil
        of partridgeberry}, and {oil of gaultheria}.
  
     {Spotted wintergreen}, a low evergreen plant ({Chimaphila
        maculata}) with ovate, white-spotted leaves.
        [1913 Webster + PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  wintergreen
       n 1: any of several evergreen perennials of the genus Pyrola
            [syn: {pyrola}]
       2: 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}, {checkerberry}, {mountain tea}, {groundberry},
           {ground-berry}, {creeping wintergreen}, {Gaultheria
          procumbens}]
       3: spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil [syn: {boxberry},
           {checkerberry}, {teaberry}, {spiceberry}]

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:

  Wintergreen, VA
    Zip code(s): 22958