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What is a wintergreen?

What is a wintergreen? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (obsolete) Any evergreen plant.
  2. One of various unrelated evergreen plants, including:
    1. Plants in shrub genus Gaultheria, commonly known as wintergreen, especially:
    2. Plants in any of several genera in the herbaceous family Ericaceae, including:
    3. Some species of the herbaceous genus Trientalis, in family Primulaceae chickweed wintergreen)
  3. The spicy red berries of Gaultheria procumbens.
  4. The oil, methyl salicylate, obtained from these berries.
  5. The aroma of the oil, methyl salicylate, however derived.
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Two wildflowers that are striking because of their white-striped leaves are giant rattlesnake plantain and white-veined wintergreen.
Oil of wintergreen, also known as methyl salicylate, is a time-honored rub or liniment used for sprains, strains, aches, pains and arthritis.
I can remember the smell of wintergreen, and the musty smell of my first sheepskin jacket.
A more pleasant-tasting tea can be brewed from equal amounts of meadowsweet, wintergreen and cramp bark.
Native Americans ate the fruit of bunchberries and wintergreen, and boiled the plants to produce a cold remedy.
It's equally difficult to distinguish wintergreen from camphor, although probably less clinically important.

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