miterwort
miterwort · miterworts
Any plant of the genus Mitella, slender perennial herbs with flower slightly…Any plant of the genus Mitella, slender perennial herbs with flower slightly resembling a bishop's miter of the arctic and temperate zones of the Northern Hemisphere.
Meaning
1 sensesAny plant of the genus Mitella, slender perennial herbs with flower slightly resembling a bishop's miter of the arctic and temperate zones of the Northern Hemisphere.
any of various rhizomatous perennial herbs of the genus Mitella having a capsule resembling a bishop's miter
Origin
From miter + wort.From miter + wort.
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Forms
plural: miterwortsSynonyms
2 synonymsClose in meaning
- any of various rhizomatous perennial herbs of the genus Mitella having a capsule resembling a bishop's miter:mitrewortbishop's cap
Word family
1 related wordsDerivedfalse miterwort