Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of plants of the natural order Saxifragaceœ and the tribe Saxifrageœ, characterized by a one-celled ovary with parietal placentæ which are alternate with the stigmas, five petals which are three-cleft or pinnatifid, and a superior capsule without beaks.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun A genus of low slender herbs of North America and Northeast Asia having flowers with trifid or pinnatifid petals.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun genus of low slender herbs of North America and northeastern Asia having flowers with trifid or pinnatifid petals
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Examples
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Trillium, the Mitella, or Bishop's-Cap, and the snowy Tiarella.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 Various
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Mitella ranges between 9 and 9,500 feet, it is strange that the chief variety in vegetation occurred on the Telagoung side, on which springs are rare.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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There is nothing of a bell-shape character about the flower, as in its nearest relative the Mitella.
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The true saxifrages are represented by several wild and cultivated species of _Saxifraga_, the little bishop's cap or mitre-wort (_Mitella_) (Fig. 111, _D_), and others.
Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell
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Saxifriga, five species; Astilbe; Heuchera, five species; Tiarella and Mitella.
North Carolina and its Resources. North Carolina. Board of Agriculture. 1896
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We propose that nuclear ribosomal DNA sequences contribute to reliable identification of reproductively isolated and cryptic species of Mitella.
BioMed Central - Latest articles Yudai Okuyama and Makoto Kato 2009
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We propose that nuclear ribosomal DNA sequences contribute to reliable identification of reproductively isolated and cryptic species of Mitella.
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[Page 72] 1 Gay-wings, Polygala paucifolia; Cool-wort, Tiarella cordifolia; Fairy-cup, Mitella dyphylla; May-star, Trientalis Americana; Bead-ruby, Convollaria bifolia; Squaw-vine, Mitchella repens; Partridge plant, Gualtheria; Dew-drop, Dalibarda.
Rural Hours 1887
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_Tiarella_ had something to do with the matter) I felt at once that these must be the mitrewort (_Mitella diphylla_).
Birds in the Bush Bradford Torrey 1877
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Convallaria, Roscoea, Mitella, Herminium, Drosera.] which (as I have elsewhere noticed) are either wholly absent from the damper ranges of Dorjiling, or found there several thousand feet higher up.
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