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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 win·ter·green /ˈwɪntɚ/
 白珠樹之類

From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Medical Dictionary 英漢醫學字典

 win·ter·green /ˈwɪntɝˌgrɪn/ 名詞
 冬綠樹

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Win·ter·green n. Bot. A plant which keeps its leaves green through the winter.
 Note:In England, the name wintergreen is applied to the species of Pyrola which in America are called English wintergreen, and shin leaf  (see Shin leaf, under Shin.)  In America, the name wintergreen is given to Gaultheria procumbens, a low evergreen aromatic plant with oval leaves clustered at the top of a short stem, and bearing small white flowers followed by red berries; -- called also checkerberry, and sometimes, though improperly, partridge berry.
 Chickweed wintergreen, a low perennial primulaceous herb (Trientalis Americana); -- also called star flower.
 Flowering wintergreen, a low plant (Polygala paucifolia) with leaves somewhat like those of the wintergreen (Gaultheria), and bearing a few showy, rose-purple blossoms.
 oil of wintergreen, An aromatic oil, consisting almost entirely of methyl salicylate (CH3CO.O.C6H4.OH), obtained by distillation of an extract of the wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens); it can also be obtained from some other plants.  It is used as a flavoring agent for tooth powders and pastes, sometimes combined with menthol or eucalyptus.  It is called also oil of teaberry, oil of partridgeberry, and oil of gaultheria.
 Spotted wintergreen, a low evergreen plant (Chimaphila maculata) with ovate, white-spotted leaves.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 wintergreen
      n 1: any of several evergreen perennials of the genus Pyrola
           [syn: pyrola]
      2: 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 [syn:
          teaberry, checkerberry, mountain tea, groundberry,
          ground-berry, creeping wintergreen, Gaultheria
         procumbens]
      3: spicy red berrylike fruit; source of wintergreen oil [syn: boxberry,
          checkerberry, teaberry, spiceberry]