Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several North American plants of the genus Mitella, having heart-shaped leaves and clusters of small white flowers with fringed petals.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name common to all plants of the genus Milella
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) Any plant of the genus Mitella, -- slender, perennial herbs with a pod slightly resembling a bishop's miter; bishop's cap.
- noun a white-flowered perennial herb of the United States (
Tiarella cardifolia ).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any plant of the
genus Mitella: slenderperennial herbs with apod slightly resembling a bishop'smiter .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of various rhizomatous perennial herbs of the genus Mitella having a capsule resembling a bishop's miter
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[From the shape of its capsule.]
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
miter + wort
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Examples
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Fine hair around her head like common miterwort, Coquille has removed her shirt, skin roughened by a summer sun in some place other than this.
I Know Where the Yakonan Have Gone Tara M. M. Larkin 2011
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