Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of plants of the natural order Rubiaceæ and the tribe Anthospermeæ, characterized by having perfect flowers with a funnel-shaped corolla, which is from three- to six-lobed, the stamens inserted upon its throat, and by the hairy style, which has four threadshaped lobes.
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- noun creeping evergreen herbs of North America
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Examples
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Many a child brought hither its spring offering of the first mitchella, or its autumn gift of checkerberries.
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When filled with mitchella vines, they brought from a dollar and
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Wilbur girls, went into the woods to gather lion's-paw and mitchella with which to decorate the old farmhouse at Thanksgiving and Christmas.
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Lucia's mother, at Portland, who invented mitchella jars, and started a new industry in our neighborhood.
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She had been there the winter before with Theodora, and both of them remembered having seen mitchella growing there.
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Mrs. Scribner wrote to Theodora and suggested that she and her girl friends make up some mitchella jars, and sell them in the city.
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Halstead led the way with the two lanterns; Addison and I, each shouldering a basket of mitchella, followed; Tom, dragging the body of the fox with his hooked stick, came behind the girls.
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However, they found less mitchella at Dunham's open than they had hoped.
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They hoped to get enough mitchella at the "open" to fill fifteen jars, and so took two bushel baskets.
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On one visit they gathered a basketful of mitchella, and when Lucia went home to Portland for Thanksgiving, she carried a small boxful of the vines and berries to her mother.
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