Found 2 items, similar to bird-on-the-wing.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: bird-on-the-wing bird-on-the-wing n : common trailing perennial milkwort of eastern North America having leaves like wintergreen and usually rosy-purple flowers with winged sepals [syn: flowering wintergreen, gaywings, fringed polygala, Polygala paucifolia]
English → English (gcide) Definition: bird-on-the-wing bird-on-the-wing \bird-on-the-wing\ n. a common trailing perennial milkwort of eastern North America (Polygala paucifolia), having leaves like wintergreen and usually rosy-purple flowers with winged sepals. Syn: flowering wintergreen, gaywings, gay-wings, fringed polygala. [WordNet 1.5]