Akademik

bird-on-the-wing

noun

common trailing perennial milkwort of eastern North America having leaves like wintergreen and usually rosy-purple flowers with winged sepals

• Syn: ↑flowering wintergreen, ↑gaywings, ↑fringed polygala, ↑Polygala paucifolia

• Hypernyms: ↑milkwort

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Etymology: so called from the shape of the flower

: gaywings

Useful english dictionary. 2012.