WINTERGREEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wintergreen mean? 

• WINTERGREEN (noun)
  The noun WINTERGREEN has 3 senses:

1. any of several evergreen perennials of the genus Pyrola

2. 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

3. spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil

  Familiarity information: WINTERGREEN used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WINTERGREEN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of several evergreen perennials of the genus Pyrola

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

pyrola; wintergreen

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)

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

checkerberry; creeping wintergreen; Gaultheria procumbens; ground-berry; groundberry; mountain tea; teaberry; wintergreen

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:

Spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

boxberry; checkerberry; spiceberry; teaberry; wintergreen

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)