FOAMFLOWER

foamflower, coolwart, false miterwort, false mitrewort, Tiarella cordifolia

(noun) stoloniferous white-flowered spring-blooming woodland plant

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

foamflower (plural foamflowers)

Any of the genus Tiarella of wildflowers and garden plants in the saxifrage family.

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

22 February 2025

ANALYSIS

(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ā€˜the father of the brideā€™ instead of ā€˜the brideā€™s fatherā€™


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The expression ā€œcoffee breakā€ was first attested in 1952 in glossy magazine advertisements by the Pan-American Coffee Bureau.

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