gaultheria procumbens

Questions about gaultheria procumbens

What does gaultheria procumbens mean?

gaultheria procumbens 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 gaultheria procumbens?

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 gaultheria procumbens a common word?

gaultheria procumbens 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.