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
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wintergreen::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | checkerberry, creeping wintergreen, gaultheria procumbens, ground-berry, groundberry, mountain tea, teaberry |
| Type of | shrublet |
wintergreen::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | boxberry, checkerberry, spiceberry, teaberry |
| Type of | berry |
wintergreen::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | pyrola |
| Type of | herbaceous plant, herb |
| Has types | wild lily of the valley, false wintergreen, pyrola rotundifolia americana, shinleaf, lesser wintergreen, pyrola americana, pyrola elliptica, pyrola minor, pyrola rotundifolia |
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Wintergreen Farm in Noti grows organic fruits, vegetables and grass-fed beef.
From the kansas.com
Over everything hovered the athletic aroma of sweat and oil of wintergreen.
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Three most common flavorants are peppermint, spearmint, and wintergreen.
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Both the foliage and the berries have the scent of wintergreen.
From the thenewstribune.com
Amid the ripe fruit, accents of wintergreen, bread dough, rye spice and chalk help round it out.
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So, it has been replaced by the leaves of an inconspicuous woodland plant called spotted wintergreen.
From the latimes.com
This line uses plant-derived ingredients and wintergreen oil.
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The twigs, bark and wood are the source of wintergreen oil.
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Wintergreen has climbed 17 percent in 2010.
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- Any of several evergreen perennials of the genus Pyrola
- Teaberry: 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
- Wintergreen is a group of plants. Wintergreen once commonly referred to plants that continue photosynthesis (remain green) throughout the winter. The term evergreen is now more commonly used for this characteristic.
- Wintergreen is an alternative rock band from Los Angeles, best known for their song "When I Wake Up" and its accompanying music video. They have released much of their music for free online.
- Wintergreen, written in 1987, is a book by Robert Michael Pyle. It describes the devastation caused by unrestrained logging in Washington's Willapa Hills. It was also the winner of the John Burroughs Medal for Distinguished Nature Writing.
- William Randolph Wintergreen, is a fictional character in DC Comics Teen Titans comics.
- Gaultheria procumbens (Eastern Teaberry, Checkerberry, Boxberry, or American Wintergreen) is a species of Gaultheria native to northeastern North America from Newfoundland west to southeastern Manitoba, and south to Alabama. ...
- Wintergreen (foaled 1906 in Ohio) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse that is best known for winning the 1909 Kentucky Derby and for being the first horse bred in Ohio to win the Derby. Wintergreen was bred and trained by Jerome "Rome" Respess at his Ohio stud farm. ...
- Pyrola (syn. Pirola Necker) is a genus of evergreen herbaceous plants in the family Ericaceae. Under the old Cronquist system it was placed in its own family Pyrolaceae, but genetic research showed it belonged in the family Ericaceae. ...
