coral-root bittercress

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   European bittercress having a knotted white rootstock

   SynonymscoralrootcoralwortCardamine bulbiferaDentaria bulbifera

   Broaderbittercress

Questions about coral-root bittercress

What does coral-root bittercress mean?

coral-root bittercress means "European bittercress having a knotted white rootstock".

What is another word for coral-root bittercress?

Close synonyms include coralroot, coralwort, Cardamine bulbifera, Dentaria bulbifera. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is coral-root bittercress a common word?

coral-root bittercress is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.