FLOWERING WINTERGREEN

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Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

bird-on-the-wing; flowering wintergreen; fringed polygala; gaywings; Polygala paucifolia

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("flowering wintergreen" is a kind of...):

milkwort (any of various plants of the genus Polygala)

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