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English noun: bird-on-the-wing

1. bird-on-the-wing (plant) common trailing perennial milkwort of eastern North America having leaves like wintergreen and usually rosy-purple flowers with winged sepals


Synonymsflowering wintergreen, fringed polygala, gaywings, Polygala paucifolia


Broader (hypernym)milkwort









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