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Webster 1913 Edition
Pipsissewa
Pip-sis′se-wa
,Noun.
[From American Indian.]
(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 also prince’s pine
. Definition 2024
pipsissewa
pipsissewa
English
Noun
pipsissewa (plural pipsissewas)
- 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.