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MITELLA PENTANDRA
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Small plant with leaves in a basal cluster and tiny greenish flowers in slender racemes; northwestern North America to California and Colorado
Synonyms:
five-point bishop's cap; Mitella pentandra
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Mitella pentandra" is a kind of...):
bishop's cap; miterwort; mitrewort (any of various rhizomatous perennial herbs of the genus Mitella having a capsule resembling a bishop's miter)
Holonyms ("Mitella pentandra" 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)