oil of wintergreen

1. 1.

   oil or flavoring obtained from the creeping wintergreen or teaberry plant

   Synonymswintergreen oil

   Broaderflavorer

Questions about oil of wintergreen

What does oil of wintergreen mean?

oil of wintergreen means "oil or flavoring obtained from the creeping wintergreen or teaberry plant".

What is another word for oil of wintergreen?

Close synonyms include wintergreen oil. 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 oil of wintergreen a common word?

oil of 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.