GAULTHERIA PROCUMBENS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Gaultheria procumbens mean? 

• GAULTHERIA PROCUMBENS (noun)
  The noun GAULTHERIA PROCUMBENS has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: GAULTHERIA PROCUMBENS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GAULTHERIA PROCUMBENS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

checkerberry; creeping wintergreen; Gaultheria procumbens; ground-berry; groundberry; mountain tea; teaberry; wintergreen

Hypernyms ("Gaultheria procumbens" is a kind of...):

shrublet (dwarf shrub)

Meronyms (parts of "Gaultheria procumbens"):

boxberry; checkerberry; spiceberry; teaberry; wintergreen (spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil)

Meronyms (substance of "Gaultheria procumbens"):

oil of wintergreen; wintergreen oil (oil or flavoring obtained from the creeping wintergreen or teaberry plant)

Holonyms ("Gaultheria procumbens" is a member of...):

Gaultheria; genus Gaultheria (widely distributed genus of creeping or upright evergreen shrubs)