Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Any of several evergreen plants of the genus Chimaphila in the heath family, especially C. umbellata, having white or pinkish flowers and formerly used as a medicinal herb.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The small evergreen, Chimaphila umbellata, the prince's-pine.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.) A low evergreen plant (Chimaphila umbellata), with narrow, wedge-lanceolate leaves, and an umbel of pretty nodding fragrant blossoms. It has been used in nephritic diseases. Called also prince's pine.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Any of several evergreen plants, of the genus Chimaphila, that have pale pink leaves; the prince's pine; in particular, the umbellate wintergreen, Chimaphila umbellata.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun any of several plants of the genus Chimaphila

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Perhaps Eastern Abenaki kpi-pskwáhsawe, woods flower, pipsissewa.]

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Perhaps from Cree pipsissewa ("breaks (stones in the body) into small pieces") (compare ᐲᐃᐧᓭᐧᐤ (pîwiswêw, "she/he cuts pieces off someone")), or perhaps from Abenaki kpipskwáhsawe ("flower of the woods").

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  • Wow! I thought this was madeupical for the Mr. Wiggly board game!

    January 27, 2009

  • It was in the Mr. Wiggly board game? *straining to recall*

    January 27, 2009

  • Uncle Wiggly. Jeez, what's wrong with me?!

    "The Bad Pipsisewah" is in the lower right corner, here.

    January 27, 2009