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WINTERGREEN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil
Synonyms:
boxberry; checkerberry; spiceberry; teaberry; wintergreen
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("wintergreen" is a kind of...):
berry (any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits; used as desserts or in making jams and jellies and preserves)
Holonyms ("wintergreen" is a part of...):
checkerberry; creeping wintergreen; Gaultheria procumbens; ground-berry; groundberry; mountain tea; teaberry; 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)
Sense 2
Meaning:
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; ground-berry; groundberry; mountain tea; teaberry; wintergreen
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("wintergreen" is a kind of...):
shrublet (dwarf shrub)
Meronyms (parts of "wintergreen"):
boxberry; checkerberry; spiceberry; teaberry; wintergreen (spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil)
Meronyms (substance of "wintergreen"):
oil of wintergreen; wintergreen oil (oil or flavoring obtained from the creeping wintergreen or teaberry plant)
Holonyms ("wintergreen" is a member of...):
Gaultheria; genus Gaultheria (widely distributed genus of creeping or upright evergreen shrubs)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Any of several evergreen perennials of the genus Pyrola
Synonyms:
pyrola; wintergreen
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("wintergreen" is a kind of...):
herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wintergreen"):
false wintergreen; Pyrola americana; Pyrola rotundifolia americana (evergreen of eastern North America with leathery leaves and numerous white flowers)
lesser wintergreen; Pyrola minor (the common wintergreen having many-flowered racemes of pink-tinged white flowers; Europe and North America)
Pyrola elliptica; shinleaf; wild lily of the valley (North American evergreen with small pinkish bell-shaped flowers and oblong leaves used formerly for shinplasters)
Pyrola rotundifolia; wild lily of the valley (evergreen with rounded leaves and very fragrant creamy-white flowers; widely distributed in northern parts of Old and New Worlds)
Holonyms ("wintergreen" is a member of...):
genus Pyrola (short-stemmed perennial herbs of cool or temperate regions: wintergreen; shinleaf)
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