Gay-wings

2 definitions found

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

  gay-wings \gay-wings\ n.
     A common trailing perennial milkwort ({Polygala paucifolia})
     of eastern North America having leaves like wintergreen and
     usually rosy-purple flowers with winged sepals.
  
     Syn: flowering wintergreen, gaywings, bird-on-the-wing,


          fringed polygala, {Polygala paucifolia}.
          [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  gaywings
       n : common trailing perennial milkwort of eastern North America
           having leaves like wintergreen and usually rosy-purple
           flowers with winged sepals [syn: {flowering wintergreen},
            {bird-on-the-wing}, {fringed polygala}, {Polygala
           paucifolia}]