wintergreen
- n any of several evergreen perennials of the genus Pyrola
- n 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
- n spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil
- The thing that did the trick was the active principle of wintergreen oil, heptyl aldehyde, a fragrant, colorless liquid.
- In its July issue, the magazine mistakenly substituted oil of wintergreen, which in substantial doses can cause nausea and vomiting, for nontoxic wintergreen extract.
- wintergreen wants wintergreen, wintergreen wants mrs.