As nouns the difference between menthol and wintergreen
is that menthol is a cyclic monoterpene alcohol; the major component of the essential oil of peppermint; used in pharmaceutical preparations as an antitussive and antipruritic agent, as a nasal decongestant, and in menthol cigarettes while wintergreen is any evergreen plant.
menthol
English
Noun
(
wikipedia menthol)
(
en noun)
(chemistry) a cyclic monoterpene alcohol; the major component of the essential oil of peppermint; used in pharmaceutical preparations as an antitussive and antipruritic agent, as a nasal decongestant, and in menthol cigarettes
A menthol cigarette.
Derived terms
* dextromenthol
* levomenthol
* racementhol
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
