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GENUS MITELLA
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Genus of low slender herbs of North America and northeastern Asia having flowers with trifid or pinnatifid petals
Synonyms:
genus Mitella; Mitella
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Mitella" is a kind of...):
rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)
Meronyms (members of "genus Mitella"):
bishop's cap; miterwort; mitrewort (any of various rhizomatous perennial herbs of the genus Mitella having a capsule resembling a bishop's miter)
fairy cup; Mitella diphylla (miterwort of northeastern North America usually with two opposite leaves on erect flowering stems that terminate in erect racemes of white flowers)
five-point bishop's cap; Mitella pentandra (small plant with leaves in a basal cluster and tiny greenish flowers in slender racemes; northwestern North America to California and Colorado)
Holonyms ("genus Mitella" is a member of...):
family Saxifragaceae; Saxifragaceae; saxifrage family (a large and diverse family of evergreen or deciduous herbs; widely distributed in northern temperate and cold regions; sometimes includes genera of the family Hydrangeaceae)