wintergreen > define

Any of several evergreen perennials of the genus Pyrola.
- synonyms: 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.
- synonyms: teaberry, checkerberry, mountain tea, groundberry, ground-berry, creeping wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens
Spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil.
- synonyms: boxberry, checkerberry, teaberry, spiceberry

(n.) A plant which keeps its leaves green through the winter.

by Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary