pyrola elliptica

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   North American evergreen with small pinkish bell-shaped flowers and oblong leaves used formerly for shinplasters

   Synonymswild lily of the valleyshinleaf

   Broaderwintergreen

Questions about pyrola elliptica

What does pyrola elliptica mean?

pyrola elliptica means "North American evergreen with small pinkish bell-shaped flowers and oblong leaves used formerly for shinplasters".

What is another word for pyrola elliptica?

Close synonyms include wild lily of the valley, shinleaf. 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 pyrola elliptica a common word?

pyrola elliptica 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.