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wintergreen

[ UK /wˈɪntəɡɹˌiːn/ ]
[ US /ˈwɪntɝˌɡɹin/ ]
NOUN
  1. any of several evergreen perennials of the genus Pyrola
  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
  3. spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil

How To Use wintergreen In A Sentence

  • This wintergreen plant grows mainly in the vicinity of penguin colonies and the gathering places of large mammals, where it usually forms extensive closed swards in larger or smaller clusters.
  • Evergreen candytuft and Liriope remain green, while wintergreen and Epimedium turn bronze or purple-red.
  • You might try other herbs rich in salicylates, notably meadowsweet and wintergreen.
  • Oil of wintergreen, also known as methyl salicylate, is a time-honored rub or liniment used for sprains, strains, aches, pains and arthritis.
  • You know how wild the country is there, and how wantonly the brook runs, bending, and winding, and coquetting with the wintergreen and cranberry vines that fringe its banks.
  • Substances such as menthol, wintergreen oil, eucalyptus oil, or turpentine cause cool or hot sensations that can temporarily relieve or cover up pain.
  • Oil of Wintergreen, which you find in liniments, is Methyl salicylate.
  • Substances such as menthol, wintergreen oil, eucalyptus oil, or turpentine cause cool or hot sensations that can temporarily relieve or cover up pain.
  • Flora, says it is possessed of active properties; the root having a sweet, pungent, aromatic taste, similar to that of the wintergreen (Gaultheria procumb.); he thinks it milder than the P. senega, and, therefore, adapted to cases in which that is inapplicable. Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs
  • The few non-woody species include little bluestem, wintergreen, Virginia tephrosia, wild indigo, tall oatgrass, cowwheat, low frost weed, turkey beard, and bracken fern.
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