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Wintergreen

nounverified·updated May 18, 2026

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

polysemous

Classifications

Entity Type

Unknownauthoritativeglossary_import_default_pending_classifier
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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

synonym
boxberrycheckerberrycreeping wintergreenground-berrygroundberrymountain teapyrolaspiceberryteaberry
plural
Wintergreens
possessive
Wintergreen's
pluralpossessive
Wintergreens'