coral root
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1. a wildflower of the genus Corallorhiza growing from a hard mass of rhizomes associated with a fungus that aids in absorbing nutrients from the forest floor (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | orchid, orchidaceous plant, |
| definition | : | any of numerous plants of the orchid family usually having flowers of unusual shapes and beautiful colors (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | corallorhiza maculata, spotted coral root, |
| definition | : | common coral root having yellowish- or reddish- or purplish-brown leafless stems bearing loose racemes of similarly colored flowers with white purple-spotted lips; Guatemala to Canada (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | corallorhiza striata, striped coral root, |
| definition | : | nearly leafless wildflower with erect reddish-purple stems bearing racemes of pale pinkish and brownish-striped flowers; western Canada to Mexico (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | corallorhiza trifida, early coral root, pale coral root, |
| definition | : | plant having clumps of nearly leafless pale yellowish to greenish stems bearing similarly colored flowers with white lower lips; northern New Mexico north through South Dakota and Washington to Alaska (noun.plant) |
| member meronym | : | corallorhiza, genus corallorhiza, |
| definition | : | genus of leafless root-parasitic orchids having small purplish or yellowish racemose flowers with lobed lips; widely distributed in temperate regions (noun.plant) |
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