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The definitions for "wintergreen" in the dictionary are all about specific plants, but the translation goes "showing green color during winter", so did the writer mean such a simple meaning?
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ex)The growing season in the Arctic region is short as well as cool, and the plants must make the most of what warmth there is. One adaptation by many Arctic plants to the short growing season is wintergreen leaves...
noun 1. Also called checkerberry. a small, creeping, evergreen shrub, Gaultheria procumbens, of the heath family, common in eastern North America, having white, nodding, bell-shaped flowers, a bright-red, berrylike fruit, and aromatic leaves that yield a volatile oil.
2. the oil of this shrub; wintergreen oil; methyl salicylate.
3. the flavor of oil of wintergreen or something flavored with it.
4. any of various other plants of the same genus.
5. any of various small evergreen herbs of the genera Pyrola and Chimaphila.
is-15
ex)The growing season in the Arctic region is short as well as cool, and the plants must make the most of what warmth there is. One adaptation by many Arctic plants to the short growing season is wintergreen leaves...
noun 1. Also called checkerberry. a small, creeping, evergreen shrub, Gaultheria procumbens, of the heath family, common in eastern North America, having white, nodding, bell-shaped flowers, a bright-red, berrylike fruit, and aromatic leaves that yield a volatile oil.
2. the oil of this shrub; wintergreen oil; methyl salicylate.
3. the flavor of oil of wintergreen or something flavored with it.
4. any of various other plants of the same genus.
5. any of various small evergreen herbs of the genera Pyrola and Chimaphila.