shinleaf
Americannoun
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a North American plant, Pyrola elliptica, having leaves used formerly for shinplasters.
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any plant of the genus Pyrola.
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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.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Parsons, Mary Elizabeth
He observed among the wild plants that she had gathered the mottled leaves and waxy blossoms of the pipsissewa and its cousin the shinleaf.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, October, 1880 by Various
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