genus Mitchella

Thesaurus

Noun

1.genus Mitchella - creeping evergreen herbs of North AmericaMitchellaasterid dicot genus - genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubsfamily Rubiaceae, madder family, Rubiaceae - widely distributed family of mostly tropical trees and shrubs and herbs; includes coffee and chinchona and gardenia and madder and bedstraws and partridgeberryboxberry, Mitchella repens, partridgeberry, twinberry - creeping woody plant of eastern North America with shiny evergreen leaves and scarlet berries