wintergreen
Noun
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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 pestssubtypes:
- 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; shinleafsame as: pyrola -
is a type of: shrublet - dwarf shrubbelongs to: gaultheria, genus gaultheria - widely distributed genus of creeping or upright evergreen shrubshas: boxberry, checkerberry, spiceberry, teaberry, wintergreen - spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oilsubstance holonym: oil of wintergreen, wintergreen oil - oil or flavoring obtained from the creeping wintergreen or teaberry plant
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is a type of: berry - any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits; used as desserts or in making jams and jellies and preservesis 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
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