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oil of wintergreen — noun oil or flavoring obtained from the creeping wintergreen or teaberry plant • Syn: ↑wintergreen oil • Hypernyms: ↑flavorer, ↑flavourer, ↑flavoring, ↑flavouring, ↑seasoner, ↑seasoning … Useful english dictionary
wintergreen oil — noun oil or flavoring obtained from the creeping wintergreen or teaberry plant • Syn: ↑oil of wintergreen • Hypernyms: ↑flavorer, ↑flavourer, ↑flavoring, ↑flavouring, ↑seasoner, ↑seasoning … Useful english dictionary
methyl salicylate — The methyl ester of salicylic acid, produced synthetically or distilled from Gaultheria procumbens (family Ericaceae) or from Betula lenta (family Betulaceae); used externally and internally for the treatment of various forms of rheumatism. SYN:… … Medical dictionary
teaberry — noun 1. 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 • Syn: ↑wintergreen, ↑checkerberry, ↑mountain tea, ↑groundberry, ↑ground… … Useful english dictionary
wintergreen — /win teuhr green /, n. 1. Also called checkerberry. a small, creeping, evergreen shrub, Gaultheria procumbens, of the heath family, common in eastern North America, having white, nodding, bell shaped flowers, a bright red, berrylike fruit, and… … Universalium
groundberry — noun 1. small prostrate or ascending shrub having scarlet flowers and succulent fruit resembling cranberries; sometimes placed in genus Styphelia • Syn: ↑native cranberry, ↑ground berry, ↑cranberry heath, ↑Astroloma humifusum, ↑Styphelia… … Useful english dictionary
creeping wintergreen — noun 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 • Syn: ↑teaberry, ↑wintergreen, ↑checkerberry, ↑mountain tea, ↑groundberry,… … Useful english dictionary
Gaultheria procumbens — noun 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 • Syn: ↑teaberry, ↑wintergreen, ↑checkerberry, ↑mountain tea, ↑groundberry,… … Useful english dictionary
ground-berry — noun 1. small prostrate or ascending shrub having scarlet flowers and succulent fruit resembling cranberries; sometimes placed in genus Styphelia • Syn: ↑native cranberry, ↑groundberry, ↑cranberry heath, ↑Astroloma humifusum, ↑Styphelia humifusum … Useful english dictionary
mountain tea — noun 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 • Syn: ↑teaberry, ↑wintergreen, ↑checkerberry, ↑groundberry, ↑ground berry,… … Useful english dictionary
