HyperDic: genus_mitella

English > 1 sense of the expression genus Mitella:
NOUNplantgenus Mitella, Mitellagenus of low slender herbs of North America and northeastern Asia having flowers with trifid or pinnatifid petals
English > genus Mitella: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaninggenus of low slender herbs of North America and northeastern Asia having flowers with trifid or pinnatifid petals.
SynonymMitella
Member ofSaxifragaceae, family Saxifragaceae, saxifrage familyA large and diverse family of evergreen or deciduous herbs
Membersfairy cup, Mitella diphyllamiterwort 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 pentandrasmall plant with leaves in a basal cluster and tiny greenish flowers in slender racemes
miterwort, mitrewort, bishop's capAny of various rhizomatous perennial herbs of the genus Mitella having a capsule resembling a bishop's miter
Broaderrosid dicot genusA genus of dicotyledonous plants
Spanishgenus mitella, mitella
Catalangenus mitella, mitella

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