wintergreen

A creeping evergreen North American plant (Gaultheria procumbens) in the heath family, having solitary nodding white flowers, aromatic leaves, and spicy edible scarlet berries.

An oil or flavoring obtained from this plant or certain other plants, such as sweet birch, or produced synthetically.

Any of several similar or related plants, especially the pipsissewas and plants of the genus Pyrola.

A plant of the genus Pyrola, especially P. minor, the common species in England, where the name is chiefly thus applied. P. rotundifolia is sometimes distinguished as false or pear-leafed wintergreen.

A plant of the genus Gaultheria, chiefly G. procumbens, the aromatic wintergreen of eastern North America.

A plant of the genus Chimaphila, especially C. maculata. See spotted wintergreen, below.

A plant which keeps its leaves green through the winter.

a low perennial primulaceous herb (Trientalis Americana); — also called star flower.

a low plant (Polygala paucifolia) with leaves somewhat like those of the wintergreen (Gaultheria), and bearing a few showy, rose-purple blossoms.