SNOW PLANT


Meaning of SNOW PLANT in English

a leafless, parasitic plant, Sarcodes sanguinea, of the pine forests of the Sierra Nevada in California, having a stout spike of bright red flowers, a thickly scaled stem, and a corallike mass of roots.

[ 1840-50 ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .