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, bishop's cap |
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Member of | Mitella, genus Mitella | genus of low slender herbs of North America and northeastern Asia having flowers with trifid or pinnatifid petals |
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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 |
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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 |
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Spanish | miterwort, mitrewort |
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Catalan | miterwort, mitrewort |
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