MITELLA

 Dictionary entry overview: What does Mitella mean? 

• MITELLA (noun)
  The noun MITELLA has 1 sense:

1. genus of low slender herbs of North America and northeastern Asia having flowers with trifid or pinnatifid petals

  Familiarity information: MITELLA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MITELLA (noun)

Meaning:

Genus of low slender herbs of North America and northeastern Asia having flowers with trifid or pinnatifid petals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Mitella; Mitella

Hypernyms ("Mitella" is a kind of...):

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Mitella"):

bishop's cap; miterwort; mitrewort (any of various rhizomatous perennial herbs of the genus Mitella having a capsule resembling a bishop's miter)

fairy cup; Mitella diphylla (miterwort of northeastern North America usually with two opposite leaves on erect flowering stems that terminate in erect racemes of white flowers)

five-point bishop's cap; Mitella pentandra (small plant with leaves in a basal cluster and tiny greenish flowers in slender racemes; northwestern North America to California and Colorado)

Holonyms ("Mitella" is a member of...):

family Saxifragaceae; Saxifragaceae; saxifrage family (a large and diverse family of evergreen or deciduous herbs; widely distributed in northern temperate and cold regions; sometimes includes genera of the family Hydrangeaceae)