As nouns the difference between wintergreen and peppermint
is that wintergreen is any evergreen plant while peppermint is a hybrid herb of the mint family formed by crossing watermint and spearmint, which has a high menthol content and a sharp flavor and is used in cooking, especially in herb teas and in confections.
peppermint
Noun
(
en noun)
A hybrid herb of the mint family formed by crossing watermint and spearmint, which has a high menthol content and a sharp flavor and is used in cooking, especially in herb teas and in confections.
A confection containing extract of peppermint.
Derived terms
* peppermint stick
wintergreen
English
Noun
(
en noun)
(obsolete) Any evergreen plant.
Any of several evergreen perennials of the genus
A North American creeping evergreen plant, Gaultheria procumbens , having solitary white flowers and aromatic leaves; the checkerberry or teaberry
The spicy red berries of this plant
The oil, methyl salicylate, obtained from these berries
The aroma of the oil, methyl salicylate, however derived.
Synonyms
* (perennial of the genus Pyrola) shinleaf
* (Gaultheria procumbens) boxberry, checkerberry, partridgeberry, spiceberry, teaberry
Derived terms
* American wintergreen
* chickweed wintergreen
* creeping wintergreen
* English wintergreen
* false wintergreen
* flowering wintergreen
* lesser wintergreen
* oil of wintergreen
* one-flowered wintergreen
* round-leaved wintergreen
* spotted wintergreen
* striped wintergreen
* wintergreen barberry
* wintergreen oil
Related terms
* checkerberry
* pinedrops
* pinesap
* pipsissewa
* shinleaf
* spiceberry
* surgical spirit
Synonyms
* teaberry
