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MITELLA DIPHYLLA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Mitella diphylla mean?
• MITELLA DIPHYLLA (noun)
The noun MITELLA DIPHYLLA has 1 sense:
1. miterwort of northeastern North America usually with two opposite leaves on erect flowering stems that terminate in erect racemes of white flowers
Familiarity information: MITELLA DIPHYLLA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Miterwort of northeastern North America usually with two opposite leaves on erect flowering stems that terminate in erect racemes of white flowers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
fairy cup; Mitella diphylla
Hypernyms ("Mitella diphylla" is a kind of...):
bishop's cap; miterwort; mitrewort (any of various rhizomatous perennial herbs of the genus Mitella having a capsule resembling a bishop's miter)
Holonyms ("Mitella diphylla" 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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