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Definition of Tiarella
1. Noun. Small genus of North American herbs having mostly basal leaves and slender racemes of delicate white flowers.
Generic synonyms: Rosid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Family Saxifragaceae, Saxifragaceae, Saxifrage Family
Member holonyms: Coolwart, False Miterwort, False Mitrewort, Foamflower, Tiarella Cordifolia, False Miterwort, False Mitrewort, Tiarella Unifoliata
Definition of Tiarella
1. Noun. Any of several woodland plants of the genus ''Tiarella''; the foamflowers ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tiarella
Literary usage of Tiarella
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Morphology of Invertebrate Types by Alexander Ivanovitch Petrunkevitch (1916)
"P: tiarella is very ... tiarella is a typical representative of the class Hydrozoa
and has a complete alternation of generations or ..."
2. Favorite Drives Around Gardner by Charles Dana Burrage (1897)
"A little later the whole hillside under the century-old trees blossoms out, for
the foam flower ( tiarella cordifolia.) and the Canada Mayflower ..."
3. Rhodora by New England Botanical Club (1906)
"SOME ANOMALOUS PLANTS OF tiarella AND MITELLA. ML FERNALD. THE occurrence, at
least in the wild state, of inter-generic hybrids is so unusual that the ..."
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