noun
common trailing perennial milkwort of eastern North America having leaves like wintergreen and usually rosy-purple flowers with winged sepals
• Hypernyms: ↑milkwort
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\\ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷\ noun plural but singular or plural in construction : a common trailing perennial milkwort (Polygala paucifolia) of eastern No. America having leaves suggesting those of the wintergreen and rosy purple or occasionally white flowers with winged sepals and fringed crest on the corolla — called also flowering wintergreen, fringed polygala
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/gay"wingz"/, n., pl. gaywings.
See fringed polygala.
[1840-50, Amer.; GAY + WING + -S3]
Useful english dictionary. 2012.