1. A low-growing, creeping evergreen plant (Gaultheria procumbens) of north america, having solitary nodding white flowers, aromatic leaves, and spicy edible scarlet berries. also called checkerberry, teaberry.
2. an oil or a flavoring obtained from this plant.
3. any of several similar or related plants, such as the pipsissewa.

1. any evergreen plant.
2. any of several evergreen perennials of the genus Pyrola
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.

1. A plant which keeps its leaves green through the winter.

1. A plant of the genus Pyrola, especially P. minor, the common species in england, where the name is chiefly thus applied. P. rotundifolia is sometimes distinguished as false or pear-leafed wintergreen.
2. A plant of the genus Gaultheria, chiefly G. procumbens, the aromatic wintergreen of eastern north america.
3. A plant of the genus Chimaphila, especially C. maculata. see spotted wintergreen, below.

1. any of several evergreen perennials of the genus Pyrola
2. spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil
3. 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