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rattlesnake plantain
noun
- any of several low, terrestrial orchids, as Goodyera repens, of northern temperate regions, having a basal rosette of leaves with white veins and a one-sided spike of white flowers.
rattlesnake plantain
noun
- any of various small temperate and tropical orchids of the genus Goodyera , having mottled or striped leaves and spikes of yellowish-white flowers
Word History and Origins
Origin of rattlesnake plantain1
Example Sentences
Unlike most of its orchid relatives, rattlesnake plantain is almost always appreciated for its exquisitely patterned leaves as opposed to its flowers.
Some, like “liverwort,” “bloodroot,” “rattlesnake plantain” or even “nipplewort,” leave little to the imagination.
The rattlesnake plantain is frequently met under the coniferous trees of our northern woods.
Also the Indian pink, the rattlesnake plantain, the pink snake-mouth, monkshood, bloodroot, pitcher plant, and numerous others that formed a wonderful exhibit which it would take a long time to do justice to.
To the structural botanist the rattlesnake plantains form an interesting connecting link between orchids of d1stinct forms.
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