Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several woodland plants of the genus Tiarella of North America and Asia, having palmate basal leaves and a narrow cluster of small delicate white or pink flowers and often grown as ornamentals.
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- noun Any of the
genus Tiarella ofwildflowers and garden plants in thesaxifrage family.
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- noun stoloniferous white-flowered spring-blooming woodland plant
Etymologies
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Examples
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Its bricks are made from recycled waste, and it has bike parking, bike showers, high-performance windows, and three green roofs planted with golden stonecrop, sweet woodruff, Allegheny foamflower and Solomon's seal.
After a Bitter Battle, a Quiet End Dana Rubinstein 2011
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Its bricks are made from recycled waste, and it has bike parking, bike showers, high-performance windows, and three green roofs planted with golden stonecrop, sweet woodruff, Allegheny foamflower and Solomon's seal.
After a Bitter Battle, a Quiet End Dana Rubinstein 2011
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So, I capered off with Zak to dig up irises, coral bells, foxglove, primroses, violets, bugleweed, forget me nots and foamflower from our huge perennial beds.
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The textured foliage blends well with the bold leaves of hostas and is great in combination with other early-season flowers, such as bleeding heart, foamflower and columbine.
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Mid-May visitors can expect to see lilacs, Korean spice viburnum, flowering dogwood, redbud, foamflower, flowering crabapples and trillium.
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