Wintergreen /(?)/
Win·ter·green
Wintergreen
n.
- A plant which keeps its leaves green through the winter. (Bot.)
Phrases & Compounds
- Chickweed wintergreen
- a low perennial primulaceous herb (Trientalis Americana); -- also called star flower.
- Flowering wintergreen
- a low plant (Polygala paucifolia) with leaves somewhat like those of the wintergreen (Gaultheria), and bearing a few showy, rose-purple blossoms.
- oil of wintergreen
- An aromatic oil, consisting almost entirely of methyl salicylate (CH3CO.O.C6H4.OH), obtained by distillation of an extract of the wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens); it can also be obtained from some other plants. It is used as a flavoring agent for tooth powders and pastes, sometimes combined with menthol or eucalyptus. It is called also oil of teaberry, oil of partridgeberry, and oil of gaultheria.
- Spotted wintergreen
- a low evergreen plant (Chimaphila maculata) with ovate, white-spotted leaves.