dielytra

See also: Dielytra

English

Etymology

From the genus name.

Noun

dielytra (plural dielytras)

1. (botany) Any member of the plant genus Dielytra.
   • 1871, Agnes Maule Machar, Lucy Raymond Or, The Children's Watchword, page 25:

     In spring, what a place it was for wild flowers!―as Lucy Raymond and her brothers well knew, having often brought home thence great bunches of dielytras and convallarias and orchises; and at any time some bright blossoms were generally to be found gleaming through the shade.