spotted coral root

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   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

   SynonymsCorallorhiza maculata

   Broadercoral root

Questions about spotted coral root

What does spotted coral root mean?

spotted coral root means "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".

What is another word for spotted coral root?

Close synonyms include Corallorhiza maculata. 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 spotted coral root a common word?

spotted coral root 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.