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Webster 1913 Edition

Polygala

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Po-lyg′a-la

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Noun.

[L., milkwort, fr. Gr. [GREEK];

πολύσ

much + [GREEK] milk.]

A genus of bitter herbs or shrubs having eight stamens and a two-celled ovary (as the Seneca snakeroot, the flowering wintergreen, etc.); milkwort.