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chimaphila
(wn) | Chimaphila
n 1: small genus of evergreen herbs with long creeping
rootstocks and shining leaves; North America; Europe; east
Asia [syn: Chimaphila, genus Chimaphila] |
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Chimaphila maculata
(gcide) | Wintergreen \Win"ter*green`\, n. (Bot.)
A plant which keeps its leaves green through the winter.
[1913 Webster]
Note: In England, the name wintergreen is applied to the
species of Pyrola which in America are called
English wintergreen, and shin leaf (see Shin leaf,
under Shin.) In America, the name wintergreen is
given to Gaultheria procumbens, a low evergreen
aromatic plant with oval leaves clustered at the top of
a short stem, and bearing small white flowers followed
by red berries; -- called also checkerberry, and
sometimes, though improperly, partridge berry.
[1913 Webster]
Chickweed wintergreen, a low perennial primulaceous herb
(Trientalis Americana); -- also called star flower.
Flowering wintergreen, a low plant (Polygala paucifolia)
with leaves somewhat like those of the wintergreen
(Gaultheria), and bearing a few showy, rose-purple
blossoms.
oil of wintergreen, An aromatic oil, consisting almost
entirely of methyl salicylate (CH3CO.O.C6H4.OH),
obtained by distillation of an extract of the wintergreen
(Gaultheria procumbens); it can also be obtained from
some other plants. It is used as a flavoring agent for
tooth powders and pastes, sometimes combined with menthol
or eucalyptus. It is called also oil of teaberry, {oil
of partridgeberry}, and oil of gaultheria.
Spotted wintergreen, a low evergreen plant ({Chimaphila
maculata}) with ovate, white-spotted leaves.
[1913 Webster + PJC] |
Chimaphila umbellata
(gcide) | Pipsissewa \Pip*sis"se*wa\, n. [From American Indian.] (Bot.)
A low evergreen plant (Chimaphila umbellata), with narrow,
wedge-lanceolate leaves, and an umbel of pretty nodding
fragrant blossoms. It has been used in nephritic diseases.
Called also prince's pine.
[1913 Webster] |
chimaphila
(wn) | Chimaphila
n 1: small genus of evergreen herbs with long creeping
rootstocks and shining leaves; North America; Europe; east
Asia [syn: Chimaphila, genus Chimaphila] |
chimaphila corymbosa
(wn) | Chimaphila corymbosa
n 1: Eurasian herb with white or pinkish flowers in a terminal
corymb [syn: love-in-winter, western prince's pine,
Chimaphila umbellata, Chimaphila corymbosa] |
chimaphila umbellata
(wn) | Chimaphila umbellata
n 1: Eurasian herb with white or pinkish flowers in a terminal
corymb [syn: love-in-winter, western prince's pine,
Chimaphila umbellata, Chimaphila corymbosa] |
genus chimaphila
(wn) | genus Chimaphila
n 1: small genus of evergreen herbs with long creeping
rootstocks and shining leaves; North America; Europe; east
Asia [syn: Chimaphila, genus Chimaphila] |
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