Definition of Wintergreen

Win´ter`green`
n.1.(Bot.) A plant which keeps its leaves green through the winter.
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.
Spotted wintergreen
a low evergreen plant (Chimaphila maculata) with ovate, white-spotted leaves.


Related Words

false wintergreen, genus Pyrola, herb, herbaceous plant, lesser wintergreen, pyrola, Pyrola americana, Pyrola elliptica, Pyrola minor, Pyrola rotundifolia, Pyrola rotundifolia americana, shinleaf, wild lily of the valley

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