mitrewort US, miterwort [ˈmaɪtəˌwɜːt]
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) any of several Asian and North American saxifragaceous plants of the genus Mitella, having clusters of small white flowers and capsules resembling a bishop's mitre Also called bishop's-cap
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| Noun | 1. |  mitrewort - any of various rhizomatous perennial herbs of the genus Mitella having a capsule resembling a bishop's miterherb, herbaceous plant - a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests genus Mitella, Mitella - genus of low slender herbs of North America and northeastern Asia having flowers with trifid or pinnatifid petals Mitella diphylla, fairy cup - miterwort of northeastern North America usually with two opposite leaves on erect flowering stems that terminate in erect racemes of white flowers five-point bishop's cap, Mitella pentandra - small plant with leaves in a basal cluster and tiny greenish flowers in slender racemes; northwestern North America to California and Colorado |
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