flowering wintergreen — noun common trailing perennial milkwort of eastern North America having leaves like wintergreen and usually rosy purple flowers with winged sepals • Syn: ↑gaywings, ↑bird on the wing, ↑fringed polygala, ↑Polygala paucifolia • Hypernyms: ↑milkwort … Useful english dictionary
flowering wintergreen. — See fringed polygala. [1810 20, Amer.] * * * … Universalium
flowering wintergreen. — See fringed polygala. [1810 20, Amer.] … Useful english dictionary
Wintergreen — Win ter*green , n. (Bot.) A plant which keeps its leaves green through the winter. [1913 Webster] Note: In England, the name wintergreen is applied to the species of {Pyrola} which in America are called {English wintergreen}, and {shin leaf} (see … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Chickweed wintergreen — Wintergreen Win ter*green , n. (Bot.) A plant which keeps its leaves green through the winter. [1913 Webster] Note: In England, the name wintergreen is applied to the species of {Pyrola} which in America are called {English wintergreen}, and… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
English wintergreen — Wintergreen Win ter*green , n. (Bot.) A plant which keeps its leaves green through the winter. [1913 Webster] Note: In England, the name wintergreen is applied to the species of {Pyrola} which in America are called {English wintergreen}, and… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Spotted wintergreen — Wintergreen Win ter*green , n. (Bot.) A plant which keeps its leaves green through the winter. [1913 Webster] Note: In England, the name wintergreen is applied to the species of {Pyrola} which in America are called {English wintergreen}, and… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
checkerberry — Wintergreen Win ter*green , n. (Bot.) A plant which keeps its leaves green through the winter. [1913 Webster] Note: In England, the name wintergreen is applied to the species of {Pyrola} which in America are called {English wintergreen}, and… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Chimaphila maculata — Wintergreen Win ter*green , n. (Bot.) A plant which keeps its leaves green through the winter. [1913 Webster] Note: In England, the name wintergreen is applied to the species of {Pyrola} which in America are called {English wintergreen}, and… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Gaultheria — Wintergreen Win ter*green , n. (Bot.) A plant which keeps its leaves green through the winter. [1913 Webster] Note: In England, the name wintergreen is applied to the species of {Pyrola} which in America are called {English wintergreen}, and… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English