Wintergreen

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(Bot.) A plant which keeps its leaves green through the winter. Chickweed wintergreen a low perennial primulaceous herb (Trientalis Americana); - also called star flower. Flowering wintergreen a low plant (Polygala paucifolia) with leaves somewhat like those of the wintergreen (Gaultheria), and bearing a few showy, rose-purple blossoms. Spotted wintergreen a low evergreen plant (Chimaphila maculata) with ovate, white-spotted leaves.

Noun	1.	wintergreen - any of several evergreen perennials of the genus Pyrola Synonyms: pyrola
	2.	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 Synonyms: checkerberry, creeping wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens, mountain tea, teaberry, ground-berry, groundberry
	3.	wintergreen - spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil Synonyms: boxberry, checkerberry, spiceberry, teaberry

false wintergreen, genus Pyrola, herb, herbaceous plant, lesser wintergreen, pyrola, Pyrola americana, Pyrola elliptica, Pyrola minor, Pyrola rotundifolia, Pyrola rotundifolia americana, shinleaf, wild lily of the valley