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coralroot

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cor·al·root  (kôrl-rt, -rt, kr-)
n.
Any of several terrestrial, saprophytic, chiefly New World orchids of the genus Corallorhiza having yellowish-green to purplish-brown leafless stems and small flowers.
[From the corallike appearance of its branched rhizomes.]
coralroot [ˈkɒrəlˌruːt]
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) any N temperate leafless orchid of the genus Corallorhiza, with small yellow-green or purple flowers and branched roots resembling coral
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Noun1.coralrootcoralroot - European bittercress having a knotted white rootstock
Cardamine bulbifera, coral-root bittercress, coralwort, Dentaria bulbifera
bitter cress, bittercress - any of various herbs of the genus Cardamine, having usually pinnate leaves and racemes of white, pink or purple flowers; cosmopolitan except Antarctic


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There is also a small genus of orchids, called coralroots, that obtains the majority of its nutrition from a mycorrhizal association with soil fungi.
Definitely among us. (Letters) by Strong, Joseph M. / Science News
Among these ancient rock formations, and hardly noticed by even the most ardent outdoorsman, is the rare limestone-loving fern and, rarer still, the southern crested coralroot orchid, known in West Virginia only in Smoke Hole.
My valley by Bowers, Robert R. / American Forests
The understory, in limited light, is occupied only sparsely by fern, devil's club, and some coralroot orchids: good winter shelter, poor feed for bear and deer, and not showing the diversity of understory vegetation that biologists associate with "prime" oldgrowth wildlife habitat.
Return to Admiralty by McLean, Herbert E. / American Forests
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