Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun bird-on-the-wing

1 sense of bird-on-the-wing

Sense 1
flowering wintergreen, gaywings, bird-on-the-wing, fringed polygala, Polygala paucifolia -- (common trailing perennial milkwort of eastern North America having leaves like wintergreen and usually rosy-purple flowers with winged sepals)
       => milkwort -- (any of various plants of the genus Polygala)