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bird-on-the-wing

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.

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bird-on-the-wing

n. common trailing perennial milkwort of eastern North America having leaves like wintergreen and usually rosy-purple flowers with winged sepals [syn: flowering wintergreen, gaywings, fringed polygala, Polygala paucifolia]