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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Wintergreen \Win"ter*green`\, n. (Bot.) A plant which keeps its leaves green through the winter. Note: In England, the name wintergreen is applied to the species of {Pyrola} which in America are called {English wintergreen}, and {shin leaf} (see Shin leaf, under {Shin}.) In America, the name wintergreen is given to {Gaultheria procumbens}, a low evergreen aromatic plant with oval leaves clustered at the top of a short stem, and bearing small white flowers followed by red berries; -- called also {checkerberry}, and sometimes though improperly, {partridge berry}. {Chickweed wintergreen}, a low perennial primulaceous herb ({Trientalis Americana}); -- also called {star flower}. {Flowering wintergreen}, a low plant ({Polygala paucifolia}) with leaves somewhat like those of the wintergreen ({Gaultheria}), and bearing a few showy, rose-purple blossoms. {Spotted wintergreen}, a low evergreen plant ({Chimaphila maculata}) with ovate, white-spotted leaves. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Checkerberry \Check"er*ber`ry\ (-b[e^]r"r[y^]), n.; pl {Checkerberries}. (Bot.) A spicy plant and its bright red berry; the wintergreen ({Gaultheria procumbens}). Also incorrectly applied to the partridge berry ({Mitchella repens}). From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: checkerberry n 1: 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 [syn: {teaberry}, {wintergreen}, {mountain tea}, {groundberry}, {creeping wintergreen}, {Gaultheria procumbens}] 2: spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil [syn: {wintergreen}, {boxberry}, {teaberry}, {spiceberry}]
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