lesser wintergreen

1. 1.

   the common wintergreen having many-flowered racemes of pink-tinged white flowers; Europe and North America

   SynonymsPyrola minor

   Broaderwintergreen

Questions about lesser wintergreen

What does lesser wintergreen mean?

lesser wintergreen means "the common wintergreen having many-flowered racemes of pink-tinged white flowers; Europe and North America".

What is another word for lesser wintergreen?

Close synonyms include Pyrola minor. 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 lesser wintergreen a common word?

lesser 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.