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wintergreen
Part of speech: NounAn evergreen plant of the heath family that bears red berries called checkerberries, and whose leaves produce oil of wintergreen.
Usage examples "wintergreen":- A rabbit, who in another month would throw off his brown vest and put on his white winter overcoat, went loping past, stopping occasionally to nip off a wintergreen leaf. - "Fish Stories", Henry Abbott.
- But Teddy and Janet could easily tell sassafras and wintergreen by the pleasant smell of the leaves. - "The Curlytops on Star Island", Howard R. Garis.
- Little baskets of wintergreen berries bring none too high prices in the fancy fruit and grocery shops when we calculate how many charming plants such unnatural use of them sacrifices. - "Wild Flowers Worth Knowing", Neltje Blanchan et al.