wintergreen
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1. spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil (noun.food)
| hypernym | : | berry, |
| definition | : | any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits; used as desserts or in making jams and jellies and preserves (noun.food) |
| part meronym | : | checkerberry, creeping wintergreen, gaultheria procumbens, ground-berry, groundberry, mountain tea, teaberry, wintergreen, |
| definition | : | 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 (noun.plant) |
2. 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 (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | shrublet, |
| definition | : | dwarf shrub (noun.plant) |
| part holonym | : | boxberry, checkerberry, spiceberry, teaberry, wintergreen, |
| definition | : | spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil (noun.food) |
| member meronym | : | gaultheria, genus gaultheria, |
| definition | : | widely distributed genus of creeping or upright evergreen shrubs (noun.plant) |
| substance holonym | : | oil of wintergreen, wintergreen oil, |
| definition | : | oil or flavoring obtained from the creeping wintergreen or teaberry plant (noun.food) |
3. any of several evergreen perennials of the genus Pyrola (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | herb, herbaceous plant, |
| definition | : | a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | false wintergreen, pyrola americana, pyrola rotundifolia americana, |
| definition | : | evergreen of eastern North America with leathery leaves and numerous white flowers (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | lesser wintergreen, pyrola minor, |
| definition | : | the common wintergreen having many-flowered racemes of pink-tinged white flowers; Europe and North America (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | pyrola elliptica, shinleaf, wild lily of the valley, |
| definition | : | North American evergreen with small pinkish bell-shaped flowers and oblong leaves used formerly for shinplasters (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | pyrola rotundifolia, wild lily of the valley, |
| definition | : | evergreen with rounded leaves and very fragrant creamy-white flowers; widely distributed in northern parts of Old and New Worlds (noun.plant) |
| member meronym | : | genus pyrola, |
| definition | : | short-stemmed perennial herbs of cool or temperate regions: wintergreen; shinleaf (noun.plant) |
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