oil of wintergreen
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Oil or flavoring obtained from the creeping wintergreen or teaberry plant (synset 107828889)
is a type of: flavorer, flavoring, flavourer, flavouring, seasoner, seasoning - something added to food primarily for the savor it impartssubstance holonym: birch oil, methyl salicylate, sweet-birch oil - a liquid ester with a strong odor of wintergreen; applied externally for minor muscle and joint painsubstance meronym: 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 oilsame as: wintergreen oil
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