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MITERWORT
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Any of various rhizomatous perennial herbs of the genus Mitella having a capsule resembling a bishop's miter
Synonyms:
bishop's cap; miterwort; mitrewort
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("miterwort" is a kind of...):
herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "miterwort"):
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 ("miterwort" is a member of...):
genus Mitella; Mitella (genus of low slender herbs of North America and northeastern Asia having flowers with trifid or pinnatifid petals)
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