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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
.

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