HyperDic: mitrewort

English > 1 sense of the word mitrewort:
NOUNplantmitrewort, miterwort, bishop's capany of various rhizomatous perennial herbs of the genus Mitella having a capsule resembling a bishop's miter
English > mitrewort: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
MeaningAny of various rhizomatous perennial herbs of the genus Mitella having a capsule resembling a bishop's miter.
Synonymsmiterwort, bishop's cap
Member ofMitella, genus Mitellagenus of low slender herbs of North America and northeastern Asia having flowers with trifid or pinnatifid petals
Narrowerfairy 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
Broaderherb, herbaceous plantA plant lacking a permanent woody stem
Spanishmiterwort, mitrewort
Catalanmiterwort, mitrewort

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