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gay⋅wings

  [gey-wingz]
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–noun, plural -wings.
fringed polygala.
Origin:
1840–50, Americanism; gay + wing + -s 3

fringed polygala

 
–noun
a North American milkwort, Polygala paucifolia, having flowers with purplish-pink, winglike petals and a fringed tube.
Also called flowering wintergreen, gaywings.
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gaywings

noun
common trailing perennial milkwort of eastern North America having leaves like wintergreen and usually rosy-purple flowers with winged sepals [syn: flowering wintergreen] 
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