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Definition of Pinesap
1. Noun. Fleshy tawny or reddish saprophytic herb resembling the Indian pipe and growing in woodland humus of eastern North America; in some classifications placed in a separate genus Hypopitys.
Generic synonyms: Wild Flower, Wildflower
Group relationships: Genus Monotropa, Monotropa
Definition of Pinesap
1. n. A reddish fleshy herb of the genus Monotropa (M. hypopitys), formerly thought to be parasitic on the roots of pine trees, but more probably saprophytic.
Definition of Pinesap
1. Noun. A saprophyte, ''Monotropa hypopitys'', having racemes of drooping flowers. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pinesap
1. a fragrant herb [n -S]
Medical Definition of Pinesap
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Pinesap
Literary usage of Pinesap
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Flora of the Blue Hills, Middlesex Fells, Stony Brook and Beaver Brook by Walter Deane (1896)
"pinesap. M. uniflora, L. INDIAN PIPE. Rich and dry woods. ... pinesap. Dry woods.
B*, occasional; Hancock Hill, etc.: — 3f*, frequent. ..."
2. The Popular Science Monthly (1894)
"... odorata (sweet pinesap), by Stephen Elliott. This is a small plant, found from
Maryland southward, and bears a spike of ..."
3. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"SWEET pinesap Calyx of 5 oblong-lanceolate acute scale-like sepals, erect, persistent.
Corolla persistent, rather fleshy, slightly 5-gibbous at the base. ..."
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