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MITERWORT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does miterwort mean? 

MITERWORT (noun)
  The noun MITERWORT has 1 sense:

1. any of various rhizomatous perennial herbs of the genus Mitella having a capsule resembling a bishop's miterplay

  Familiarity information: MITERWORT used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


MITERWORT (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various rhizomatous perennial herbs of the genus Mitella having a capsule resembling a bishop's miter

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

bishop's cap; miterwort; mitrewort

Hypernyms ("miterwort" is a kind of...):

herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "miterwort"):

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)

five-point bishop's cap; Mitella pentandra (small plant with leaves in a basal cluster and tiny greenish flowers in slender racemes; northwestern North America to California and Colorado)

Holonyms ("miterwort" 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)


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