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wintergreen.

Any evergreen plant.

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Meaning & usage

noun/ˈwɪntə(ɹ)ˌɡɹiːn/
  1. Any evergreen plant.

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  2. One 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)

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  3. One of various not closely related evergreen plants, including: Plants in shrub genus Gaultheria, commonly known as wintergreen, especially: Gaultheria humifusa – alpine wintergreen

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  4. One of various not closely related evergreen plants, including: Plants in shrub genus Gaultheria, commonly known as wintergreen, especially: Gaultheria ovatifolia – western teaberry or Oregon spicy wintergreen

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  5. One of various not closely related evergreen plants, including: Plants in shrub genus Gaultheria, commonly known as wintergreen, especially: Chimaphila maculata – striped wintergreen, pipsissewa

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  6. One of various not closely related evergreen plants, including: Plants in any of several other genera in the herbaceous family Ericaceae, including: Genus Pyrola, native to northern temperate and Arctic regions.

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  7. One of various not closely related evergreen plants, including: Plants in any of several other genera in the herbaceous family Ericaceae, including: Genus Orthilia

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  8. One of various not closely related evergreen plants, including: Plants in any of several other genera in the herbaceous family Ericaceae, including: Genus Moneses

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  9. One of various not closely related evergreen plants, including: Plants in any of several other genera in the herbaceous family Ericaceae, including: Genus Chimaphila (prince's pine, pipsissewa)

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  10. One of various not closely related evergreen plants, including: Some species of the herbaceous genus Trientalis, in family Primulaceae (chickweed wintergreen)

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  11. The spicy red berries of Gaultheria procumbens.

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  12. The oil, methyl salicylate, obtained from these berries.

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  13. The aroma of the oil, methyl salicylate, however derived.

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Where this word comes from

Etymology tree English winter Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁-der. Proto-Indo-European *gróh₁nis Proto-Germanic *grōniz Proto-West Germanic *grōnī Old English grēne Middle English grene English green English wintergreen From winter + green.

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