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Wintergreen

noun

Any of several evergreen perennials of the genus Pyrola. Synonym: pyrola.

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. Synonyms: checkerberry, creeping wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens, ground-berry, groundberry, mountain tea, teaberry.

Spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil. Synonyms: boxberry, checkerberry, spiceberry, teaberry.

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"Wintergreen" Quotes from Famous Books

... second day until two nursings daily are given. Keep the two daily nursings up for one week and then discontinue them, after which the above measures may be adopted. To dry the milk up, the breasts may be anointed with the following mixture: Ext. Belladonna, 2 drams; Glycerine, 2 ounces; Oil of Wintergreen, ...

— The Eugenic Marriage, Volume I. (of IV.) - A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies • W. Grant Hague, M.D.

... edges of the woods, looking for flowers. She found clumps of bloodroot, great anemone-flowers that she picked by the handful. There were some little blue flowers, also, whose name she did not know; and sprays of wintergreen berries and long grasses. Greatly daring, she put one of the low, flat vases she had found in her cabin in the center of the men's trestle-table, and filled it with her treasure-trove. Then, a little tired, she sat down ...

— I've Married Marjorie • Margaret Widdemer

... the joy of wintergreen, which both men brought to the child, and he learned to forage for it himself. The fleshy dark green leaves and red berries clustered thickly in the woods. He and his mother went in the boat when the day was to be given to bass or pickerel fishing, and he learned great lessons of water-lore ...

— The Cursed Patois - From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899 • Mary Hartwell Catherwood

Words linked to "Wintergreen" : Pyrola rotundifolia americana, shrublet, Pyrola minor, Pyrola elliptica, herb, berry, wild lily of the valley, genus Pyrola, Pyrola americana, herbaceous plant, genus Gaultheria, shinleaf, Pyrola rotundifolia, Gaultheria