pipsissewa

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Any of several evergreen plants of the genus Chimaphila in the heath family, especially C. umbellata, having white or pinkish flowers and formerly used as a medicinal herb.

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The small evergreen, Chimaphila umbellata, the prince’s-pine.

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A low evergreen plant (Chimaphila umbellata), with narrow, wedge-lanceolate leaves, and an umbel of pretty nodding fragrant blossoms. It has been used in nephritic diseases. Called also prince’s pine.

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Any of several evergreen plants, of the genus Chimaphila, that have pale pink leaves; the prince’s pine; in particular, the umbellate wintergreen, Chimaphila umbellata.

noun

any of several plants of the genus Chimaphila