TIARELLA

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does Tiarella mean? 

• TIARELLA (noun)
  The noun TIARELLA has 1 sense:

1. small genus of North American herbs having mostly basal leaves and slender racemes of delicate white flowers

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TIARELLA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small genus of North American herbs having mostly basal leaves and slender racemes of delicate white flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Tiarella; Tiarella

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

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Tiarella"):

coolwart; false miterwort; false mitrewort; foamflower; Tiarella cordifolia (stoloniferous white-flowered spring-blooming woodland plant)

false miterwort; false mitrewort; Tiarella unifoliata (plant with tiny white flowers hanging in loose clusters on leafy stems; moist woods from Alaska to central California and east to Montana)

Holonyms ("Tiarella" is a member of...):

family Saxifragaceae; Saxifragaceae; saxifrage family (a large and diverse family of evergreen or deciduous herbs; widely distributed in northern temperate and cold regions; sometimes includes genera of the family Hydrangeaceae)