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, ↑bird-on-the-wing, ↑Polygala paucifolia
• Hypernyms: ↑milkwort
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noun : gaywings
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a North American milkwort, Polygala paucifolia, having flowers with purplish-pink, winglike petals and a fringed tube. Also called flowering wintergreen, gaywings.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.