wintergreen
noun
Examples of wintergreen in a Sentence
Rebecca Jones, Southern Living, 19 Feb. 2024
Cinnamon, clove, lemongrass, cassia, black pepper, and wintergreen all have the potential to irritate skin as well.
—Condé Nast, Allure, 5 Apr. 2018
These pouches come in popular flavors like wintergreen and cinnamon and are generally attractive to younger people who don’t understand the risks of nicotine.
—Maggie O'Neill, Health, 28 Nov. 2023
This spot-on flea treatment for dogs is made with all-natural ingredients, such as geraniol and wintergreen oil, which work together to repel fleas, ticks, and even mosquitoes.
—Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 23 June 2023
But there’s plenty here for the purist, too: butter pecan, cherry vanilla, wintergreen chip, and so on.
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The Dairy Joy in Weston early in the 2018 season.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Aug. 2023
Less effective but still helpful options include wintergreen oil, geranium oil, pennyroyal oil, and rosemary oil, which showed a 60 to 85 percent reduction in stink bug attraction to a bait trap.
—Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 7 July 2023
This herbal repellent is made with a blend of essential oils, including geraniol, wintergreen, and almond oil, to create a potent mixture that not only repels fleas and ticks but is also safe for your dog.
—Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 25 June 2023
Flavors from the period like clove and sassafras have given way to an ambiguous array of what might best be called fruit-adjacent flavors, and wintergreen.
—Kim Severson, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2023
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Word History
1525, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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wintergreen
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