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| | wintergreen | (วิน'เทอะกรีน) n. พืช มีดอกสีขาวเป็นรูประฆัง มีใบที่มีกลิ่นหอม ใช้ทำน้ำมันระกำ | | wintergreen oil | n. น้ำมันระกำ, น้ำมันmethylsalicylate |
| | | | ธูปไม้ระกำ | (n) joss-sticks make of wintergreen, Count Unit: ดอก, Thai Definition: ธูปที่ใช้ไม้ระกำเป็นแกน |
| | น้ำมันระกำ | [nāmman rakam] (n, exp) EN: oil of wintergreen FR: essence de wintergreen [ f ] | | ระกำ | [rakam] (n) EN: wintergreen ; zalacca ; rakam FR: wintergreen [ m ] |
| | | false wintergreen | (n) evergreen of eastern North America with leathery leaves and numerous white flowers, Syn. Pyrola americana, Pyrola rotundifolia americana | | flowering wintergreen | (n) common trailing perennial milkwort of eastern North America having leaves like wintergreen and usually rosy-purple flowers with winged sepals, Syn. gaywings, fringed polygala, Polygala paucifolia, bird-on-the-wing | | lesser wintergreen | (n) the common wintergreen having many-flowered racemes of pink-tinged white flowers; Europe and North America, Syn. Pyrola minor | | one-flowered wintergreen | (n) delicate evergreen dwarf herb of north temperate regions having a solitary white terminal flower; sometimes placed in genus Pyrola, Syn. one-flowered pyrola, Moneses uniflora, Pyrola uniflora | | wintergreen | (n) any of several evergreen perennials of the genus Pyrola, Syn. pyrola | | wintergreen | (n) spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil, Syn. boxberry, checkerberry, spiceberry, teaberry | | wintergreen oil | (n) oil or flavoring obtained from the creeping wintergreen or teaberry plant, Syn. oil of wintergreen | | pyrolaceae | (n) evergreen herbs of temperate regions: genera Pyrola, Chimaphila, Moneses, Orthilia, Syn. wintergreen family, family Pyrolaceae | | teaberry | (n) 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, Syn. ground-berry, mountain tea, Gaultheria procumbens, creeping wintergreen, wintergreen, checkerberry, groundberry |
| | Wintergreen | n. (Bot.) A plant which keeps its leaves green through the winter. [ 1913 Webster ] ☞ 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 ]
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