bird-on-the-wing

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

bird-on-the-wing
    n 1: 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}, {fringed polygala},
         {Polygala paucifolia}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

bird-on-the-wing \bird-on-the-wing\ n.
   a common trailing perennial milkwort of eastern North America
   ({Polygala paucifolia}), having leaves like wintergreen and
   usually rosy-purple flowers with winged sepals.

   Syn: flowering wintergreen, gaywings, gay-wings, fringed
        polygala.
        [WordNet 1.5]

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