NOUN | plant | bishop's cap, miterwort, mitrewort | any of various rhizomatous perennial herbs of the genus Mitella having a capsule resembling a bishop's miter |
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Meaning | Any of various rhizomatous perennial herbs of the genus Mitella having a capsule resembling a bishop's miter. | |
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Synonyms | miterwort, mitrewort | |
Member of | Mitella, genus Mitella | genus of low slender herbs of North America and northeastern Asia having flowers with trifid or pinnatifid petals |
Narrower | 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 | |
Broader | herb, herbaceous plant | A plant lacking a permanent woody stem |
Spanish | miterwort, mitrewort | |
Catalan | miterwort, mitrewort |
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