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Definition of Genus mitella
1. Noun. Genus of low slender herbs of North America and northeastern Asia having flowers with trifid or pinnatifid petals.
Generic synonyms: Rosid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Family Saxifragaceae, Saxifragaceae, Saxifrage Family
Member holonyms: Bishop's Cap, Miterwort, Mitrewort, Fairy Cup, Mitella Diphylla, Five-point Bishop's Cap, Mitella Pentandra
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Mitella
Literary usage of Genus mitella
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Barnacles (Cirripedia): Contained in the Collections of the U. S by Henry Augustus Pilsbry (1907)
"Subfamily S Genus MITELLA Oken. 1815. Mitella OKEN, Lehrbuch der Zoologie, I, p.
362, for Lepas pollicipes. 1817. Pollicipes LEACH, Journal de Physique, ..."
2. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1916)
"Supplement-Band) presents a revision of the genus Mitella, recognizing 12 species,
one of which is new to science.—WE SAFFORD (Jour. Wash. Acad. Sci. ..."
3. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"... a wheel used for cutting a groove of triangular section. miterwort (mï'ter-wert),
я. A name common to all plants of the genus Mitella False miter- wort. ..."
4. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1829)
"I agree entirely with Dr Hooker that this plant ought not to be separated from
the genus Mitella. Its habit and structure belong so exactly to that genus, ..."
5. Erythea: A Journal of Botany, West American and General by Willis Linn Jepson (1895)
"Perhaps this will be made a distinct species when some one who knows our Lupines
works out a revision of the genus. Mitella ..."
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