FALSE ALUMROOT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does false alumroot mean? 

• FALSE ALUMROOT (noun)
  The noun FALSE ALUMROOT has 1 sense:

1. plant growing in clumps with mostly basal leaves and cream-colored or pale pink fringed flowers in several long racemes; Alaska to coastal central California and east to Idaho

  Familiarity information: FALSE ALUMROOT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FALSE ALUMROOT (noun)

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Meaning:

Plant growing in clumps with mostly basal leaves and cream-colored or pale pink fringed flowers in several long racemes; Alaska to coastal central California and east to Idaho

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

false alumroot; fringe cups; Tellima grandiflora

Hypernyms ("false alumroot" is a kind of...):

wild flower; wildflower (wild or uncultivated flowering plant)

Holonyms ("false alumroot" is a member of...):

genus Tellima; Tellima (genus of hardy perennials with palmately lobed leaves and long racemes of small nodding five-petaled flowers; western North America)