SPOTTED CORAL ROOT

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Meaning:

Common coral root having yellowish- or reddish- or purplish-brown leafless stems bearing loose racemes of similarly colored flowers with white purple-spotted lips; Guatemala to Canada

Synonyms:

Corallorhiza maculata; spotted coral root

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("spotted 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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