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Definition of Pyrola elliptica
1. Noun. North American evergreen with small pinkish bell-shaped flowers and oblong leaves used formerly for shinplasters.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pyrola Elliptica
Literary usage of Pyrola elliptica
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Summarized Proceedings ... and a Directory of Members (1873)
"pyrola elliptica. Monotropa uniflora. ... paniculata and bracteata pyrola elliptica.
Monotropa uniflora. ..."
2. How to Know the Wild Flowers: A Guide to the Names, Haunts, and Habits of by Frances Theodora Parsons, Marion Satterlee (1900)
"... the scientist who christened it was fully alive to its peculiar charm. SHIN-LEAF.
pyrola elliptica. Heath Family. Scape.—Upright; scaly; terminating in ..."
3. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1897)
"... south to the District of Columbia, Illinois, Nebraska and Colorado. Also in
Europe. June-July. 3. pyrola elliptica Nutt. Shin-leaf. (Fig. 2728. ..."
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