win|ter|green

win|ter|green
win|ter|green «WIHN tuhr GREEN», noun.
1. a small, creeping, evergreen plant of North America with small, white, drooping flowers, bright-red berries, and aromatic leaves. An oil made from its leaves is used in medicine and candy. Wintergreen belongs to the heath family. The wintergreen is also called checkerberry, spiceberry, teaberry, and (incorrectly) partridgeberry.
2. this oil.
3. its flavor, or something flavored with it.
4. any other plant of the same group.
5. any one of a group of evergreen herbs, especially a woodland plant with roundish, drooping, white flowers; shinleaf.
6. any one of various low plants of an allied group; pipsissewa.

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