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Pyrola

noun

Any of several evergreen perennials of the genus Pyrola. Synonym: wintergreen.

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"Pyrola" Quotes from Famous Books

... plants, flourish side by side with the snowy Cypripedium and the singular Coral-Weed. The evergreen Dewberry, a delicate species of Rubus, trails its glossy leaves over the turfs, and mingles its beaded fruit with the scarlet berries of the Mitchella. The Pyrola, named by the Indians Pipsissewa, and regarded by them as a specific for consumption, suspends its pale purple flowers in beautiful umbels, as if to invite the feeble invalid to accept its proffered remedies. Variety, indeed, may be found in these deep shades; but it exists ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 8, No. 46, August, 1861 • Various

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Words linked to "Pyrola" : wild lily of the valley, herb, lesser wintergreen, false wintergreen, shinleaf, herbaceous plant