FLOWERING WINTERGREEN
Dictionary entry overview: What does flowering wintergreen mean? • FLOWERING WINTERGREEN (noun)
The noun FLOWERING WINTERGREEN has 1 sense:
1. common trailing perennial milkwort of eastern North America having leaves like wintergreen and usually rosy-purple flowers with winged sepals
Familiarity information: FLOWERING WINTERGREEN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• FLOWERING WINTERGREEN (noun)
Meaning:
Common trailing perennial milkwort of eastern North America having leaves like wintergreen and usually rosy-purple flowers with winged sepals
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
bird-on-the-wing; flowering wintergreen; fringed polygala; gaywings; Polygala paucifolia
Hypernyms ("flowering wintergreen" is a kind of...):
milkwort (any of various plants of the genus Polygala)
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