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OIL OF WINTERGREEN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Oil or flavoring obtained from the creeping wintergreen or teaberry plant
Synonyms:
oil of wintergreen; wintergreen oil
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("oil of wintergreen" is a kind of...):
flavorer; flavoring; flavourer; flavouring; seasoner; seasoning (something added to food primarily for the savor it imparts)
Meronyms (substance of "oil of wintergreen"):
birch oil; methyl salicylate; sweet-birch oil (a liquid ester with a strong odor of wintergreen; applied externally for minor muscle and joint pain)
Holonyms ("oil of wintergreen" is a substance of...):
checkerberry; creeping wintergreen; Gaultheria procumbens; ground-berry; groundberry; mountain tea; teaberry; 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 oil)
