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CREEPING WINTERGREEN

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

checkerberry; creeping wintergreen; Gaultheria procumbens; ground-berry; groundberry; mountain tea; teaberry; wintergreen

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("creeping wintergreen" is a kind of...):

shrublet (dwarf shrub)

Meronyms (parts of "creeping wintergreen"):

boxberry; checkerberry; spiceberry; teaberry; wintergreen (spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil)

Meronyms (substance of "creeping wintergreen"):

oil of wintergreen; wintergreen oil (oil or flavoring obtained from the creeping wintergreen or teaberry plant)

Holonyms ("creeping wintergreen" is a member of...):

Gaultheria; genus Gaultheria (widely distributed genus of creeping or upright evergreen shrubs)

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