wintergreen

plural wintergreens

1. countableobsoleteuncountableAny evergreen plant.
2. One of various not closely related evergreen plants, including:
   1. countableuncountableGaultheria procumbens, native to North America, having solitary white flowers and aromatic leaves (checkerberry or teaberry)
   2. countableuncountableGaultheria humifusa – alpine wintergreen
   3. countableuncountableGaultheria ovatifolia – western teaberry or Oregon spicy wintergreen
   4. countableuncountableChimaphila maculata – striped wintergreen, pipsissewa
   5. countableuncountableGenus Pyrola, native to northern temperate and Arctic regions.

      Synonyms: shinleaf

   6. countableuncountableGenus Orthilia
   7. countableuncountableGenus Moneses
   8. countableuncountableGenus Chimaphila (prince's pine, pipsissewa)
   9. countableuncountableSome species of the herbaceous genus Trientalis, in family Primulaceae (chickweed wintergreen)
3. countableuncountableThe spicy red berries of Gaultheria procumbens.
4. countableuncountableThe oil, methyl salicylate, obtained from these berries.
5. countableuncountableThe aroma of the oil, methyl salicylate, however derived.