MITELLA DIPHYLLA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Mitella diphylla mean? 

• MITELLA DIPHYLLA (noun)
  The noun MITELLA DIPHYLLA has 1 sense:

1. miterwort of northeastern North America usually with two opposite leaves on erect flowering stems that terminate in erect racemes of white flowers

  Familiarity information: MITELLA DIPHYLLA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MITELLA DIPHYLLA (noun)

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Meaning:

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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Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

fairy cup; Mitella diphylla

Hypernyms ("Mitella diphylla" is a kind of...):

bishop's cap; miterwort; mitrewort (any of various rhizomatous perennial herbs of the genus Mitella having a capsule resembling a bishop's miter)

Holonyms ("Mitella diphylla" is a member of...):

genus Mitella; Mitella (genus of low slender herbs of North America and northeastern Asia having flowers with trifid or pinnatifid petals)