OIL OF WINTERGREEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does oil of wintergreen mean? 

• OIL OF WINTERGREEN (noun)
  The noun OIL OF WINTERGREEN has 1 sense:

1. oil or flavoring obtained from the creeping wintergreen or teaberry plant

  Familiarity information: OIL OF WINTERGREEN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OIL OF WINTERGREEN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Oil or flavoring obtained from the creeping wintergreen or teaberry plant

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

oil of wintergreen; wintergreen oil

Hypernyms ("oil of wintergreen" is a kind of...):

flavorer; flavoring; flavourer; flavouring; seasoner; seasoning (something added to food primarily for the savor it imparts)

Meronyms (substance of "oil of wintergreen"):

birch oil; methyl salicylate; sweet-birch oil (a liquid ester with a strong odor of wintergreen; applied externally for minor muscle and joint pain)

Holonyms ("oil of wintergreen" is a substance 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)