Crossword clues for wintergreen
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wintergreen \Win"ter*green`\, n. (Bot.) A plant which keeps its leaves green through the winter.
Note: 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.
Chickweed wintergreen, a low perennial primulaceous herb ( Trientalis Americana); -- also called star flower.
Flowering wintergreen, a low plant ( Polygala paucifolia) with leaves somewhat like those of the wintergreen ( Gaultheria), and bearing a few showy, rose-purple blossoms.
Spotted wintergreen, a low evergreen plant ( Chimaphila maculata) with ovate, white-spotted leaves.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context obsolete English) Any evergreen plant. 2 Any of several evergreen perennials of the genus (taxlink Pyrola genus noshow=1) 3 A North American creeping evergreen plant, ''Gaultheria procumbens'', having solitary white flowers and aromatic leaves; the checkerberry or teaberry 4 The spicy red berries of this plant 5 The oil, methyl salicylate, obtained from these berries 6 The aroma of the oil, methyl salicylate, however derived.
WordNet
n. any of several evergreen perennials of the genus Pyrola [syn: pyrola]
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 [syn: teaberry, checkerberry, mountain tea, groundberry, ground-berry, creeping wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens]
spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil [syn: boxberry, checkerberry, teaberry, spiceberry]
Wikipedia
Wintergreen is a group of aromatic plants. The term "wintergreen" once commonly referred to plants that remain green (continue photosynthesis) throughout the winter. The term " evergreen" is now more commonly used for this characteristic.
Most species of the shrub genus Gaultheria demonstrate this characteristic and are called wintergreens in North America, the most common generally being the American wintergreen ( Gaultheria procumbens). Wintergreens in the genus Gaultheria contain an aromatic compound, methyl salicylate, and are used as a mintlike flavoring.
William Randolph Wintergreen is a fictional character in DC Comics, often depicted as an associate of the supervillain Deathstroke.
Wintergreen, written in 1987, is a book by Robert Michael Pyle. It describes the devastation caused by unrestrained logging in Washington's Willapa Hills. It was also the winner of the John Burroughs Medal for Distinguished Nature Writing.
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Wintergreen may refer to:
- One of various unrelated evergreen plants, including:
- Plants in shrub genus Gaultheria, commonly known as wintergreen, especially:
- Gaultheria procumbens – known as eastern teaberry or simply wintergreen
- Gaultheria humifusa – alpine wintergreen
- Gaultheria ovatifolia – western teaberry or Oregon spicy wintergreen
- Several genera in the herbaceous subfamily Pyrolaceae, within Ericaceae including:
- Genus Pyrola
- Genus Orthilia
- Genus Moneses
- Genus Chimaphila
- Chimaphila maculata – striped wintergreen
- Some species of the herbaceous genus Trientalis, which are in the family Primulaceae, are known as "chickweed wintergreen"
- Plants in shrub genus Gaultheria, commonly known as wintergreen, especially:
- A flavoring derived from wintergreen plants
- Wintergreen (band), an American band
- Wintergreen (book), a book by Robert Pyle
- Wintergreen (comics), a character in the Teen Titans comic
- Wintergreen (horse), an American Thoroughbred racehorse
- Wintergreen Resort, located in Virginia, United States
- Wintergreen Studios, off-grid education centre in Ontario, Canada
- ex-PFC Wintergreen, a fictional character from Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22
- Wintergreen, a presidential candidate in the play Of Thee I Sing
- "Wintergreen", a song by That Handsome Devil from A City Dressed in Dynamite
Wintergreen is an alternative rock band from Los Angeles, best known for their song "When I Wake Up" and its accompanying music video. They have released much of their music for free online.
Wintergreen (1906–1914) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse that is best known for winning the 1909 Kentucky Derby and for being the first horse bred in Ohio to win the Derby. Wintergreen was bred and trained by Jerome "Rome" Respess at his Ohio stud farm. Respess was a multimillionaire owner of a brewing company and also owned Wintergreen's sire, Dick Welles — named after Richard H. Welles, later the father of Orson Welles.
Wintergreen raced from ages two to seven years old but did not win any stakes races before or after the Kentucky Derby but was a stakes performer for most of his career.
Wintergreen was killed April 10, 1914, in a fire that consumed barn #18 at the Latonia Race Track in Covington, Kentucky, just across the Ohio River from Cincinnati. He had been gelded some years previously and was racing for D. Fisk.
Usage examples of "wintergreen".
It may be disguised by rubbing it with an equal quantity of glycerine and adding one or two drops of oil of anise, cinnamon, or wintergreen.
Wintergreen, who scribbled a brusque, unsigned reminder that the Army had only one Major Major Major Major and did not intend to lose him by promotion just to please Colonel Cathcart.
I found there were still plants under the snow, and I would dig down and get teaberry leaves and wintergreen.
With a savage whoop, Wintergreen gunned his analogical car down the hypothetical freeway straight for the imaginary cyclist, the cancer cell.
Less important British members of the group are the Chaffweed (Centunculus minimus), one of the smallest among British plants, the Chickweed Wintergreen (Trientalis), the Sea Milk-wort (Glaux maritima), which has succulent salty leaves and has been used as a pickle, and the Common Brookweed or Water Pimpernel (Samolus).
They cleaned the broken wound of its exudations with a lotion of woundwort and sanicle, and dressed it with a paste of the same herbs with betony and the chickweed wintergreen, covered it with clean linen, and swathed the patients wasted trunk with bandages to keep the dressing in place.
In his two months of research, Wintergreen had come upon numbers of cases where a terminal cancer abruptly reversed itself and the patient, for whom all hope had been abandoned, had been cured.
And she was fumbling with the radio dial: the announcer's overloud phony-excited voice reading an ad (and the announcer was Ted Wintergreen she'd known back in high school: in those days a timid sallow-skinned farm boy) was distracting.
Someone at Twenty-seventh Air Force Headquarters had it in for him and sent back every report he wrote with a blistering rebuke, and Colonel Korn had bribed a clever mail clerk there named Wintergreen to try to find out who it was.
Step Three: The UV radiation is absorbed by the wintergreen flavoring, methyl salicylate.
I should point out that even without the wintergreen flavoring, virtually all crystal sugar candy, including peppermint Life Savers, will emit some visible light when crushed, although it's usually pretty faint.
Wintergreen struck open a water pipe while digging in one of his holes and almost drowned to death before he was fished out nearly unconscious.
The scent of wintergreen oil emanated from their meticulously arranged hair.