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Meanings of wintergreen in English
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.
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Examples for "teaberry"
Examples for "teaberry"
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The teaberry gown was too long for Miriam, and too large in every way.
2
Molly, feeling a touch of rheumatism, was somewhere in the lower thicket seeking a teaberry tonic.
3
After dinner Miriam went up to her room, where upon the bed lay Judith Pacewalk's teaberry gown.
4
She is now the head of the house, and it is she who should wear the teaberry gown.
5
Miriam, attired in her teaberry gown, came up from the Cobhurst kitchen, and walked out toward the garden.
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I came to hunt for some simples...for spearmint and checkerberry and tansy.
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The scent of pine-woods and checkerberry-leaves seemed to bang about her.
3
Her breath carried the keen scent of crushed checkerberry plums.
4
There was a twisted red-and-white stick of peppermint, pink checkerberry, clear barley- astickof every kind in the glass jars in Mr. Rose's store window.
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Many a child brought hither its spring offering of the first mitchella, or its autumn gift of checkerberries.
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Some people call it the boxberry; and some call it wintergreen.
2
Have no objection, either, to his bringing Elinor boxberry plums.
3
I never read yet of any maiden losing her heart on boxberry plums; though, to be sure, he might bewitch them.
4
Boxberry, fever-bush, sweet fern, and horseradish make a good and healthy diet-drink.
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'O, he don't bring me nigh boxberries enough,' says Elinor, laughing.
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The old lady made hot corn bread and brewed a pot of mountain tea.
Usage of wintergreen in English
1
He sat staring at the brook; he chewed wintergreen leaves no longer.
2
Flavor the pink mass with wintergreen and the white one with peppermint.
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Some people call it the boxberry; and some call it wintergreen.
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She took some leaves of the wintergreen and chewed them to calm herself.
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Methyl Salicylate Another mild analgesic, this is synthesized oil of wintergreen.
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Mercy was sitting on a mound which was thick-grown with the shining wintergreen.
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On the opposite side from us were woods, where wintergreen berries were plentiful.
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The man lounging beside the brook, chewing wintergreen leaves, seemed to realize antipodes.
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She smelled his wintergreen hair oil and masculine body odor.
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Add the pineapple, orange, and lemon juice, strain, add the wintergreen oil, and freeze.
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A few drops of oil of peppermint can be added, or oil of wintergreen.
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Flavor with peppermint, wintergreen, cinnamon, or any flavor you choose.
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She sighed and took a roll of wintergreen Life Savers from her dress pocket.
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One ounce Sarsaparilla, two pounds brown sugar, ten drops wintergreen, and half pint of water.
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He could taste the wintergreen coolness of her breath.
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Glass dishes of lime drops and wintergreen candies added to the general green and white effect.
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