noun. 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.

noun. A plant of the genus Pyrola, properly P. elliptica: said to be so named from the use of its leaves for shinplasters.

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

"Pines raise statelier shafts and give themselves room to grow, -- gentians, shinleaf, and little grass of Parnassus in their golden checkered shadows; the meadow is white with violets and all outdoors keeps the clock."

pyrola  wintergreen  

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