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    MITREWORT

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

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

    Synonyms:

    bishop's cap; miterwort; mitrewort

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("mitrewort" 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 "mitrewort"):

    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 ("mitrewort" 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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