creeping wintergreen

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Noun

1.creeping wintergreen - creeping shrub of eastern North America having white bell-shaped flowers followed by spicy red berrylike fruit and shiny aromatic leaves that yield wintergreen oilcheckerberry, Gaultheria procumbens, mountain tea, teaberry, wintergreen, groundberry, ground-berryboxberry, checkerberry, spiceberry, teaberry, wintergreen - spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oiloil of wintergreen, wintergreen oil - oil or flavoring obtained from the creeping wintergreen or teaberry plantGaultheria, genus Gaultheria - widely distributed genus of creeping or upright evergreen shrubsshrublet - dwarf shrub