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Widely distributed genus of creeping or upright evergreen shrubs
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gaultheria
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in 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 ...
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n. (context botany English) Any of the genus ''Gaultheria'' of evergreen ericaceous shrubs.
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Gaultheria is a genus of about 135 species of shrubs in the family Ericaceae . The name commemorates Jean-François Gauthier of Quebec, an honour bestowed by the Scandinavian Pehr Kalm in 1748 and taken up by Carl Linnaeus in his . These plants are native ...