HyperDic: bird-on-the-wing

English > 1 sense of the word *bird-on-the-wing*:
NOUN	plant	bird-on-the-wing, flowering wintergreen, gaywings, fringed polygala, Polygala paucifolia	common trailing perennial milkwort of eastern North America having leaves like wintergreen and usually rosy-purple flowers with winged sepals

English > *bird-on-the-wing*: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaning	Common trailing perennial milkwort of eastern North America having leaves like wintergreen and usually rosy-purple flowers with winged sepals.
Synonyms	flowering wintergreen, gaywings, fringed polygala, Polygala paucifolia
Broader	milkwort	Any of various plants of the genus Polygala