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Shinleaf

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Noun

1. pyrola elliptica, shinleaf, wild lily of the valley

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

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Shinleaf

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noun plural -leaves
the usual US name for wintergreen (sense 3)

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Shinleaf

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noun
any of a genus (Pyrola) of plants of the heath family, with slender stalks havingsmall, rounded evergreen leaves at the base and racemes of globular flowers

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Shinleaf

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n.
Any of various Eurasian and North American woodland perennial herbs of the genus Pyrola of the heath family, especially P. elliptica, having a basal cluster of elliptic to oblong leaves and white to pink flowers.

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