noun
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, ↑checkerberry, ↑mountain tea, ↑groundberry, ↑ground-berry, ↑creeping wintergreen
• Hypernyms: ↑shrublet
• Member Holonyms: ↑Gaultheria, ↑genus Gaultheria
• Substance Meronyms: ↑wintergreen oil, ↑oil of wintergreen
• Part Meronyms: ↑wintergreen, ↑boxberry, ↑checkerberry, ↑teaberry, ↑spiceberry
Useful english dictionary. 2012.