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‖ mitchella Bot.|mɪˈtʃɛlə|
[Mod.Lat.; named by Linnæus in 1753 after the botanist John Mitchell (died 1768).]
A genus of trailing evergreen herbs of the family Rubiaceæ; a plant of this genus, e.g. M. repens, the partridge-berry.
1824Loudon Encycl. Gard. Gen. Index (ed. 2) 1206/2 Mitchelia [read Mitchella]..a diminutive creeper which grows in peat soil. 1862Darwin in Life & Lett. III. 301 The Mitchella very good, but pollen apparently equal-sized. 1870Mrs. Whitney We Girls ii, Leslie was quick to spy the bit of creeping mitchella. |