bishop's cap

Meanings

nounbishop's cap (plural bishop's caps)

The plant miterwort.
Therefore, at Pentecost, which brings The Spring, clothed like a bride, When nestling buds unfold their wings, And bishop's-caps have golden rings, Musing upon many things, I sought the woodlands wide.
1839, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Prelude”, in Voices of the Night, Cambridge, Mass.: […] John Owen, →OCLC, page xi

nounany of various rhizomatous perennial herbs of the genus Mitella having a capsule resembling a bishop's miter

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herbherbaceous plant

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