| NOUN | food | wintergreen oil, oil of wintergreen | oil or flavoring obtained from the creeping wintergreen or teaberry / teaberry plant |
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| Meaning | oil or flavoring obtained from the creeping wintergreen or teaberry / teaberry plant. | |
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| Synonym | oil of wintergreen | |
| Broader | flavorer, flavourer, flavoring, flavouring, seasoner, seasoning | Something added to food primarily for the savor it imparts |
| Substance of | teaberry, wintergreen, checkerberry, mountain tea, groundberry, ground-berry, creeping wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens | 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 |
| Substances | methyl salicylate, birch oil, sweet-birch oil | A liquid ester with a strong odor of wintergreen |
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