Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun 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.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The small evergreen, Chimaphila umbellata, the prince's-pine.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) 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 alsoprince's pine .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun 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.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of several plants of the genus Chimaphila
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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If the problem involves too much water in the body, diuretic herbs such as dandelion, cleavers, pipsissewa, buchu, fresh cornsilk, barberry, and juniper berries should help.
THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE JOHN LUST 2003
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Not once had her troubled look wandered from the moist dead leaves on the ground, to the misty edges of the forest, where small wild flowers thronged in a pale procession of pipsissewa, ladies 'tresses, and
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Not once had her troubled look wandered from the moist dead leaves on the ground, to the misty edges of the forest, where small wild flowers thronged in a pale procession of pipsissewa, ladies 'tresses, and Enchanter's nightshade.
The Miller Of Old Church Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow 1909
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Margat went out and gathered a lapful of pipsissewa to make tea, of which Corney was encouraged to drink copiously.
Animal Heroes Ernest Thompson Seton 1903
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Above us, among the stones of the slope, hang bunches of Christmas fern; around the foot of the trees we uncover trailing clusters of gray-green partridge vine, glowing with crimson berries; we rake up the prince's-pine, pipsissewa, creeping-Jennie, and wintergreen red with ripe berries -- a whole bouquet of evergreens, exquisite, fairy-like forms that later shall gladden our Christmas table.
The Hills of Hingham Dallas Lore Sharp 1899
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In like manner one learns where to look for arbutus, for pipsissewa, for the early orchis; they have their particular haunts, and their surroundings are nearly always the same.
The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton John Burroughs 1879
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Lady's-slippers likewise (nothing but leaves) looked homelike and friendly, and the wild lily of the valley, too, and the pipsissewa.
The Foot-path Way Bradford Torrey 1877
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A plain brown carpet suits it best, with a modest figure of green -- preferably of evergreen -- woven into it; a tracery of partridge-berry vine, or, it may be, of club moss, with here and there a tuft of pipsissewa and pyrola.
The Foot-path Way Bradford Torrey 1877
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The C. umbellata, pipsissewa, grows in North Carolina, and northward.
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These, with the blackberry and chinquapin as astringents, the gentians and pipsissewa as tonics and tonic diuretics, the sweet gum, sassafras, and bené for their mucilaginous and aromatic properties, and the wild jalap (podophyllum) as a cathartic, supply the surgeon in camp with easily procurable medicinal plants, which are sufficient for almost every purpose.
chained_bear commented on the word pipsissewa
Wow! I thought this was madeupical for the Mr. Wiggly board game!
January 27, 2009
reesetee commented on the word pipsissewa
It was in the Mr. Wiggly board game? *straining to recall*
January 27, 2009
chained_bear commented on the word pipsissewa
Uncle Wiggly. Jeez, what's wrong with me?!
"The Bad Pipsisewah" is in the lower right corner, here.
January 27, 2009