wintergreen meaning (obsolete): definition, etymology

wintergreen

noun

/ˈwɪntə(ɹ)ˌɡɹiːn/

Etymology From winter + green.

13 senses

Obsolete Any evergreen plant.

› One of various not closely related evergreen… › Plants in shrub genus Gaultheria, commonly…

Gaultheria procumbens, native to North America, having solitary white flowers and aromatic leaves (checkerberry or teaberry)

Gaultheria humifusa – alpine wintergreen

Gaultheria ovatifolia – western teaberry or Oregon spicy wintergreen

Chimaphila maculata – striped wintergreen, pipsissewa

› One of various not closely related evergreen… › Plants in any of several other genera in the…

Genus Pyrola, native to northern temperate and Arctic regions.

Genus Orthilia

Genus Moneses

Genus Chimaphila (prince's pine, pipsissewa)

› One of various not closely related evergreen…

Some species of the herbaceous genus Trientalis, in family Primulaceae (chickweed wintergreen)

The spicy red berries of Gaultheria procumbens.

The oil, methyl salicylate, obtained from these berries.

The aroma of the oil, methyl salicylate, however derived.

Synonyms: shinleaf, boxberry, checkerberry, partridgeberry, spiceberry, teaberry
Derived terms: American wintergreen, chickweed wintergreen, creeping wintergreen, English wintergreen, false wintergreen, flowering wintergreen, lesser wintergreen, oil of wintergreen, one-flowered wintergreen, round-leaved wintergreen, spotted wintergreen, striped wintergreen, umbellate wintergreen, whitevein wintergreen, wintergreen barberry, wintergreen oil
Related terms: pinedrops, pinesap, shinleaf, surgical spirit