Definition of Mitchella repens

1. Noun. Creeping woody plant of eastern North America with shiny evergreen leaves and scarlet berries.

Exact synonyms: Boxberry, Partridgeberry, Twinberry
Group relationships: Genus Mitchella, Mitchella
Generic synonyms: Vine

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mitchella Repens

Missy
Mister
Mister Man
Mister Right
Misters
Mistralian
Misty
Mitanni
Mitchell
Mitchell's disease
Mitchell's treatment
Mitchell principle
Mitchell principles
Mitchella
Mitchella repens
Mitchum
Mitella diphylla
Mitella pentandra
Mitford
Mithra
Mithracin
Mithraea
Mithraeum
Mithraeums
Mithraic
Mithraicism
Mithraism
Mithraist
Mithras

Literary usage of Mitchella repens

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Companion to the Botanical Magazine by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1835)
"363. Panax trifolium, L. — New York and Pennsylvania. 364. Aralia racemosa, L. — Covington. 385. mitchella repens, L.—N. Orl. (n. 146. ..."

2. Materia Medica and Special Therapeutics of the New Remedies by Edwin Moses Hale (1897)
"mitchella repens. BOTANICAL DESCRIPTION.—" This is an indigenous evergreen herb, with a perennial root, from which arises a smooth and creeping stem, ..."

3. Charles Darwin's Works by Charles Darwin (1896)
"... —mitchella repens, fertility of the flowers in pairs—Houstonia—Faramea, remarkable difference in the ..."

4. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1918)
"... but not in the quadrats counted: Anaphalis margari- tacea, Epilobium, angustifolium, Erechtites hieracifolia, mitchella repens, Polygonatum biflorum, ..."

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