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plural wintergreens
(obsolete) Any evergreen plant.
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) examples
Gaultheria humifusa – alpine wintergreen examples
Gaultheria ovatifolia – western teaberry or Oregon spicy wintergreen examples
Chimaphila maculata – striped wintergreen, pipsissewa examples
Plants in any of several other genera in the herbaceous family Ericaceae, including:
Genus Pyrola, native to northern temperate and Arctic regions. examples
Genus Orthilia examples
Genus Moneses examples
Genus Chimaphila (prince's pine, pipsissewa) examples
Some species of the herbaceous genus Trientalis, in family Primulaceae (chickweed wintergreen) examples
The spicy red berries of Gaultheria procumbens. examples
The oil, methyl salicylate, obtained from these berries. examples
The aroma of the oil, methyl salicylate, however derived. examples