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wild lily of the valley — noun 1. North American evergreen with small pinkish bell shaped flowers and oblong leaves used formerly for shinplasters • Syn: ↑shinleaf, ↑Pyrola elliptica • Hypernyms: ↑wintergreen, ↑pyrola 2. evergreen with rounded leaves and very fragrant… … Useful english dictionary
pyrola — noun any of several evergreen perennials of the genus Pyrola • Syn: ↑wintergreen • Hypernyms: ↑herb, ↑herbaceous plant • Hyponyms: ↑false wintergreen, ↑Pyrola americana, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
Pyrola americana — noun evergreen of eastern North America with leathery leaves and numerous white flowers • Syn: ↑false wintergreen, ↑Pyrola rotundifolia americana • Hypernyms: ↑wintergreen, ↑pyrola … Useful english dictionary
Pyrola rotundifolia americana — noun evergreen of eastern North America with leathery leaves and numerous white flowers • Syn: ↑false wintergreen, ↑Pyrola americana • Hypernyms: ↑wintergreen, ↑pyrola … Useful english dictionary
consumption weed — noun a shrub of salt marshes of eastern and south central North America and West Indies; fruit is surrounded with white plumelike hairy tufts • Syn: ↑groundsel tree, ↑groundsel bush, ↑cotton seed tree, ↑Baccharis halimifolia • Hypernyms: ↑shrub,… … Useful english dictionary
canker lettuce — noun Etymology: probably so called from a belief that it cures canker : false wintergreen … Useful english dictionary
dollarleaf — ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ noun 1. : false wintergreen 2. : a prostrate round leafed tick trefoil (Desmodium rotundifolium) … Useful english dictionary
liverwort lettuce — noun : false wintergreen … Useful english dictionary
wild lettuce — noun 1. a. : a weedy lettuce that is an escape from a cultivated strain b. : any of several native wild plants of the genus Lactuca: as (1) : prickly lettuce (2) … Useful english dictionary
se|cund — «SEE kuhnd, SEHK uhnd», adjective. Botany. arranged on one sidnly; unilateral: »The flowers of the lily of the valley and the false wintergreen are secund. ╂[< Latin secundus following. See etym. of doublet second1. (Cf. ↑second)] … Useful english dictionary
