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    BIRD-ON-THE-WING

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

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

    Synonyms:

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

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("bird-on-the-wing" is a kind of...):

    milkwort (any of various plants of the genus Polygala)

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