Bird-on-the-wing

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
          [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]