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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of various Eurasian and North American woodland perennial herbs of the genera Moneses and Pyrola, especially P. elliptica, having a basal cluster of elliptic to oblong leaves and white to pink flowers.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A plant of the genus Pyrola, properly P. elliptica: said to be so named from the use of its leaves for shinplasters.
WordNet 3.0
- n. North American evergreen with small pinkish bell-shaped flowers and oblong leaves used formerly for shinplasters
Etymologies
- Probably from the use of its leaves in plasters for sore legs. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
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“Pines raise statelier shafts and give themselves room to grow, -- gentians, shinleaf, and little grass of Parnassus in their golden checkered shadows; the meadow is white with violets and all outdoors keeps the clock.”
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