PALE CORAL ROOT

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Plant having clumps of nearly leafless pale yellowish to greenish stems bearing similarly colored flowers with white lower lips; northern New Mexico north through South Dakota and Washington to Alaska

Synonyms:

Corallorhiza trifida; early coral root; pale coral root

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("pale coral root" is a kind of...):

coral root (a wildflower of the genus Corallorhiza growing from a hard mass of rhizomes associated with a fungus that aids in absorbing nutrients from the forest floor)

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