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CORALROOT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does coralroot mean?
• CORALROOT (noun)
The noun CORALROOT has 1 sense:
1. European bittercress having a knotted white rootstock
Familiarity information: CORALROOT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
European bittercress having a knotted white rootstock
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Cardamine bulbifera; coral-root bittercress; coralroot; coralwort; Dentaria bulbifera
Hypernyms ("coralroot" is a kind of...):
bitter cress; bittercress (any of various herbs of the genus Cardamine, having usually pinnate leaves and racemes of white, pink or purple flowers; cosmopolitan except Antarctic)
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