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Webster 1913 Edition
Wintergreen
Win′ter-greenˊ
,Noun.
(Bot.)
A plant which keeps its leaves green through the winter.
☞ 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
.