·noun A genus of bitter herbs or shrubs having eight stamens and a two-celled ovary (as the Seneca snakeroot, the flowering wintergreen, ·etc.); milkwort.
pŏlygăla, ae, f., = πολύγαλον, the herb milkwort , Plin. 27, 12, 96, § 121. ...
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