What is the meaning of wintergreen?

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

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