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shinleaf
[ shin-leef ]
noun
plural shinleaves.
- a North American plant, Pyrola elliptica, having leaves used formerly for shinplasters.
- any plant of the genus Pyrola.
shinleaf
/ ˈʃɪ²ÔËŒ±ô¾±Ë´Ú /
noun
- the usual US name for wintergreen
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These pretty plants are called "shinleaf," because the leaves of some of the species were used by the English peasantry as plasters which they applied to bruises or sores.
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He observed among the wild plants that she had gathered the mottled leaves and waxy blossoms of the pipsissewa and its cousin the shinleaf.
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