BIRD-ON-THE-WING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bird-on-the-wing mean? 

• BIRD-ON-THE-WING (noun)
  The noun BIRD-ON-THE-WING 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: BIRD-ON-THE-WING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BIRD-ON-THE-WING (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 sepals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

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

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

milkwort (any of various plants of the genus Polygala)