EARLY CORAL ROOT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does early coral root mean? 

• EARLY CORAL ROOT (noun)
  The noun EARLY CORAL ROOT has 1 sense:

1. plant having clumps of nearly leafless pale yellowish to greenish stems bearing similarly colored flowers with white lower lips; northern New Mexico north through South Dakota and Washington to Alaska

  Familiarity information: EARLY CORAL ROOT used as a noun is very rare.

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• EARLY CORAL ROOT (noun)

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Meaning:

Plant having clumps of nearly leafless pale yellowish to greenish stems bearing similarly colored flowers with white lower lips; northern New Mexico north through South Dakota and Washington to Alaska

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Corallorhiza trifida; early coral root; pale coral root

Hypernyms ("early coral root" is a kind of...):

coral root (a wildflower of the genus Corallorhiza growing from a hard mass of rhizomes associated with a fungus that aids in absorbing nutrients from the forest floor)