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wintergreen
 
Noun wintergreen has 3 senses
  1. wintergreen, pyrola - any of several evergreen perennials of the genus Pyrola
    --1 is a kind of herb, herbaceous plant
    --1 is a member of genus Pyrola
    --1 has particulars:
     false wintergreen, Pyrola americana, Pyrola rotundifolia americana; lesser wintergreen, Pyrola minor; wild lily of the valley, shinleaf, Pyrola elliptica; wild lily of the valley, Pyrola rotundifolia
  2. teaberry, wintergreen, checkerberry, mountain tea, groundberry, ground-berry, creeping wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens - 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
    --2 is a kind of shrublet
    --2 is a member of Gaultheria, genus Gaultheria
    --2 has parts:
     wintergreen, boxberry, checkerberry, teaberry, spiceberry
     --2 has substances: wintergreen oil, oil of wintergreen
  3. wintergreen, boxberry, checkerberry, teaberry, spiceberry - spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil
    --3 is a kind of berry
    --3 is a part of
     teaberry, wintergreen, checkerberry, mountain tea, groundberry, ground-berry, creeping wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens
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