bird-on-the-wing

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   common trailing perennial milkwort of eastern North America having leaves like wintergreen and usually rosy-purple flowers with winged sepals

   Synonymsflowering wintergreengaywingsfringed polygalaPolygala paucifolia

   Broadermilkwort

Questions about bird-on-the-wing

What does bird-on-the-wing mean?

bird-on-the-wing means "common trailing perennial milkwort of eastern North America having leaves like wintergreen and usually rosy-purple flowers with winged sepals".

How many syllables are in bird-on-the-wing?

bird-on-the-wing has 4 syllables: bir-d-on--the--wing. The stress falls on "d-on-".

What is another word for bird-on-the-wing?

Close synonyms include flowering wintergreen, gaywings, fringed polygala, Polygala paucifolia. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bird-on-the-wing a common word?

bird-on-the-wing is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.