Definitions for wintergreen

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wintergreen win·ter·green

Spelling: [win-ter-green]

IPA: /ˈwɪn tərˌgrin/

Wintergreen is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 269 anagrams from letters in wintergreen (eeeginnrrtw).

Definitions for wintergreen

noun

1. Also called checkerberry. a small, creeping, evergreen shrub, Gaultheria procumbens, of the heath family, common in eastern North America, having white, nodding, bell-shaped flowers, a bright-red, berrylike fruit, and aromatic leaves that yield a volatile oil.
2. the oil of this shrub; wintergreen oil; methyl salicylate.
3. the flavor of oil of wintergreen or something flavored with it.
4. any of various other plants of the same genus.
5. any of various small evergreen herbs of the genera Pyrola and Chimaphila.

Origin of wintergreen

1540-50; translation of Dutch wintergroen or German Wintergrün

Examples for wintergreen

Same as peppermint, except put three red stripes, as in wintergreen.

wintergreen creams can be made by flavoring with wintergreen.

When he found wintergreen they set out for a trip through Canada.

He had met wintergreen, who had returned from England with Thomlinson.

Yes, we actually have fig-paste, spicy with wintergreen and black-birch!

The wintergreen, or Checkerberry, used for flavoring, belongs to this genus.

Then she added, politely: "Only I guess these are wintergreen."

There is no other plant at all like this wintergreen, so you will have no difficulty in recognising it.

Henry was selected by wintergreen to assist him in his duties as Secretary.

That is, you call it wintergreen; but it is not that at all, it is birch.