Dictionary entry overview: What does Gaultheria mean?
• GAULTHERIA (noun) The noun GAULTHERIA has 1 sense:
1. widely distributed genus of creeping or upright evergreen shrubs
Familiarity information: GAULTHERIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• GAULTHERIA (noun)
Meaning:
Widely distributed genus of creeping or upright evergreen shrubs
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Gaultheria; genus Gaultheria
Hypernyms ("Gaultheria" is a kind of...):
dilleniid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs)
Meronyms (members of "Gaultheria"):
creeping snowberry; Gaultheria hispidula; maidenhair berry; moxie plum (slow-growing procumbent evergreen shrublet of northern North America and Japan having white flowers and numerous white fleshy rough and hairy seeds)
checkerberry; creeping wintergreen; Gaultheria procumbens; ground-berry; groundberry; mountain tea; teaberry; wintergreen (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)
Gaultheria shallon; salal; shallon (small evergreen shrub of Pacific coast of North America having edible dark purple grape-size berries)
Holonyms ("Gaultheria" is a member of...):
Ericaceae; family Ericaceae; heath family (heathers)
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