Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun coral_root

1 sense of coral root

Sense 1
coral root -- (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)
       => orchid, orchidaceous plant -- (any of numerous plants of the orchid family usually having flowers of unusual shapes and beautiful colors)


1 sense of coralroot

Sense 1
coral-root bittercress, coralroot, coralwort, Cardamine bulbifera, Dentaria bulbifera -- (European bittercress having a knotted white rootstock)
       => bittercress, bitter cress -- (any of various herbs of the genus Cardamine, having usually pinnate leaves and racemes of white, pink or purple flowers; cosmopolitan except Antarctic)