wintergreens

Meanings

Noun

• any of several evergreen perennials of the genus Pyrola
• 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
• spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil
• plural of wintergreen

Synonyms

boxberry, checkerberry, creeping wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens, ground-berry, groundberry, mountain tea, pyrola, spiceberry, teaberry, wintergreen