Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun 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 Century Dictionary.

  • noun A plant of the genus Corallorhiza. Also called coralwort.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun a European bittercress (Dentaria bulbifera) having a knotted white rootstock.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Any of several saprophytic orchids of the genus Corallorhiza

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun 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
  • noun European bittercress having a knotted white rootstock

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From the corallike appearance of its branched rhizomes.]

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Examples

  • The quarry was the coralroot orchid and the name is derived from the underground stem that is said to be coral like.

    Country diary: Ardersier 2011

  • In the end I did find the coralroot orchid and, although their blossoms had gone over, it was interesting to see the reddish stems characteristic of where this orchid grows, on sand dunes.

    Country diary: Ardersier 2011

  • The closely related spotted coralroot on page 22, yes, but not the striped.

    grouse Diary Entry grouse 2004

  • Don't know that I've ever seen a striped coralroot.

    grouse Diary Entry grouse 2004

  • The kid arched, half of him still following the parabola of his swing while the other half tried to bend away from Joe, who hit the coralroot scar again and continued to move in, staying low, pursuing the softening, collapsing midsection.

    Stallion Gate Smith, Martin Cruz, 1942- 1986

  • Rare plants include blue-hearts, Texas sandwort, crested coralroot, crane-fly orchid, dwarf hackberry and spotted wintergreen.

    post-gazette.com - News 2009

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