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    GENUS TIARELLA

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

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

    Synonyms:

    genus Tiarella; Tiarella

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

    rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

    Meronyms (members of "genus 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 ("genus 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)

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