creeping wintergreen

Questions about creeping wintergreen

What does creeping wintergreen mean?

creeping wintergreen means "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".

What is another word for creeping wintergreen?

Close synonyms include teaberry, wintergreen, checkerberry, mountain tea, groundberry. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is creeping wintergreen a common word?

creeping wintergreen is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.