Flowering wintergreen Meaning, Definition & Usage
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noun common trailing perennial milkwort of eastern North America having leaves like wintergreen and usually rosy-purple flowers with winged sepals
fringed polygala; gaywings; bird-on-the-wing; Polygala paucifolia.
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Definitions
- a low plant (
Polygala paucifolia ) with leaves somewhat like those of the wintergreen (Gaultheria ), and bearing a few showy, rose-purple blossoms.
