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SPOTTED CORAL ROOT
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Common coral root having yellowish- or reddish- or purplish-brown leafless stems bearing loose racemes of similarly colored flowers with white purple-spotted lips; Guatemala to Canada
Synonyms:
Corallorhiza maculata; spotted coral root
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Hypernyms ("spotted 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)