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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 flowers
Synonyms:
genus Tiarella; Tiarella
Classified under:
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)
