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Definition of Gaultheria procumbens
1. Noun. 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.
Terms within: Boxberry, Checkerberry, Spiceberry, Teaberry, Wintergreen
Terms within: Oil Of Wintergreen, Wintergreen Oil
Group relationships: Gaultheria, Genus Gaultheria
Generic synonyms: Shrublet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gaultheria Procumbens
Literary usage of Gaultheria procumbens
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Or, Flower-garden Displayed: In which the Most by John Sims (1818)
"gaultheria procumbens. TRAILING GAULTHERIA. ***# ************* Class and Order.
... GAULTHERIA procumbens ; foliis ... GAULTHERIA procumbens; repens: foliis ..."
2. American Medical Botany: Being a Collection of the Native Medicinal Plants by Jacob Bigelow (1817)
"The gaultheria procumbens is one of those hardy and abstemious plants, which are
better satisfied with the clear air of the mountains, than with a deep or ..."
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