Noun: gaywings 'gey'wingz
- Common trailing perennial milkwort of eastern North America having leaves like wintergreen and usually rosy-purple flowers with winged sepals
"Gaywings spread across the forest floor like tiny purple butterflies";
- flowering wintergreen, bird-on-the-wing, fringed polygala, Polygala paucifolia
Type of: milkwort
Encyclopedia: Gaywings