wintergreen

1. Any of several evergreen perennials of the genus Pyrola (synset 112276629)
   is a type of: herb, herbaceous plant - a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests
   subtypes:

   • false wintergreen, pyrola americana, pyrola rotundifolia americana - evergreen of eastern North America with leathery leaves and numerous white flowers
   • lesser wintergreen, pyrola minor - the common wintergreen having many-flowered racemes of pink-tinged white flowers; Europe and North America
   • pyrola elliptica, shinleaf, wild lily of the valley - North American evergreen with small pinkish bell-shaped flowers and oblong leaves used formerly for shinplasters
   • pyrola rotundifolia, wild lily of the valley - evergreen with rounded leaves and very fragrant creamy-white flowers; widely distributed in northern parts of Old and New Worlds
   belongs to: genus pyrola - short-stemmed perennial herbs of cool or temperate regions: wintergreen; shinleaf
   same as: 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 (synset 112256282)
   is a type of: shrublet - dwarf shrub
   belongs to: gaultheria, genus gaultheria - widely distributed genus of creeping or upright evergreen shrubs
   has: boxberry, checkerberry, spiceberry, teaberry, wintergreen - spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil
   substance holonym: oil of wintergreen, wintergreen oil - oil or flavoring obtained from the creeping wintergreen or teaberry plant
   same as: checkerberry, creeping wintergreen, gaultheria procumbens, ground-berry, groundberry, mountain tea, teaberry
3. Spicy red berrylike fruit;
   Source of wintergreen oil (synset 107759699)
   is a type of: berry - any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits; used as desserts or in making jams and jellies and preserves
   is a part of: checkerberry, creeping wintergreen, gaultheria procumbens, ground-berry, groundberry, mountain tea, teaberry, wintergreen - 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
   same as: boxberry, checkerberry, spiceberry, teaberry

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