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GAULTHERIA PROCUMBENS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Gaultheria procumbens mean?
• GAULTHERIA PROCUMBENS (noun)
The noun GAULTHERIA PROCUMBENS has 1 sense:
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
Familiarity information: GAULTHERIA PROCUMBENS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• GAULTHERIA PROCUMBENS (noun)
Sense 1
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
checkerberry; creeping wintergreen; Gaultheria procumbens; ground-berry; groundberry; mountain tea; teaberry; wintergreen
Hypernyms ("Gaultheria procumbens" is a kind of...):
shrublet (dwarf shrub)
Meronyms (parts of "Gaultheria procumbens"):
boxberry; checkerberry; spiceberry; teaberry; wintergreen (spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil)
Meronyms (substance of "Gaultheria procumbens"):
oil of wintergreen; wintergreen oil (oil or flavoring obtained from the creeping wintergreen or teaberry plant)
Holonyms ("Gaultheria procumbens" is a member of...):
Gaultheria; genus Gaultheria (widely distributed genus of creeping or upright evergreen shrubs)
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