MITCHELLA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Mitchella mean? 

• MITCHELLA (noun)
  The noun MITCHELLA has 1 sense:

1. creeping evergreen herbs of North America

  Familiarity information: MITCHELLA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MITCHELLA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Creeping evergreen herbs of North America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Mitchella; Mitchella

Hypernyms ("Mitchella" is a kind of...):

asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)

Meronyms (members of "Mitchella"):

boxberry; Mitchella repens; partridgeberry; twinberry (creeping woody plant of eastern North America with shiny evergreen leaves and scarlet berries)

Holonyms ("Mitchella" is a member of...):

family Rubiaceae; madder family; Rubiaceae (widely distributed family of mostly tropical trees and shrubs and herbs; includes coffee and chinchona and gardenia and madder and bedstraws and partridgeberry)