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EARLY CORAL ROOT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Plant having clumps of nearly leafless pale yellowish to greenish stems bearing similarly colored flowers with white lower lips; northern New Mexico north through South Dakota and Washington to Alaska
Synonyms:
Corallorhiza trifida; early coral root; pale coral root
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Hypernyms ("early coral root" is a kind of...):
coral root (a wildflower of the genus Corallorhiza growing from a hard mass of rhizomes associated with a fungus that aids in absorbing nutrients from the forest floor)