Definition of Mitreworts

1. mitrewort [n] - See also: mitrewort

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mitreworts

mitral valve insufficiency
mitral valve prolapse
mitral valve prolapse syndrome
mitral valve stenosis
mitral valvotomy
mitralic
mitralization
mitramycin
mitre
mitre box
mitre joint
mitred
mitreless
mitres
mitrewort
mitreworts (current term)
mitridatite
mitriform
mitring
mitryaevaite
mitscherlichite
mitsvah
mitsvahs
mitsvoth
mitt
mitta
mittelschmerz
mitten
mittened
mittenless

Literary usage of Mitreworts

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

1. Our Ferns in Their Haunts: A Guide to All the Native Species by Willard Nelson Clute (1901)
"Should the collector in crossing a piece of rich moist woods find nestling among the violets, mitreworts and trilliums, a tiny fern with a blade " like ..."

2. Familiar Flowers of Field and Garden by Ferdinand Schuyler Mathews (1895)
"The names for the false and true mitreworts, Tiarella and Mitella, have a perfectly evident origin; the seed pods look like tiny bishops' mitres. ..."

3. The Ottawa Naturalist by Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club (1904)
"Such are, for the woods, the violets, the lilies, the early poppies, ihe saxifrages and mitreworts, strawberries and hepaticas ; and for the swamps and wet ..."

4. Bulletin by Vermont Agricultural Experiment Station (1907)
"SAXIFRAGACEAE This family includes only the one genus of woody plants, the others being the herbaceous saxifrages and mitreworts. ..."

5. A Pacific Coast Vacation by Ida Dorman Morris, James Edwin Morris (1901)
"Blue bells nod and sway in the breeze, little ragged sun flowers turn their faces to the sun and mitreworts grow everywhere. Along the shady streams wild ..."

6. Annual Report by Vermont Agricultural Experiment Station (1910)
"SAXIFRAGACEAE This family includes only the one genus of woody plants, the others being the herbaceous saxifrages and mitreworts. CURRANTS AND GOOSEBERRIES ..."

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