spring beauty

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Definition of spring beauty in English English dictionary

Any of various species of flowering plant of the genus Claytonia, primarily native to the Americas and northeastern Asia

small slender plant having one pair of succulent leaves at the middle of the stem and a loose raceme of white or pink or rose bowl-shaped flowers and an edible corm

Any of various succulent, spring-flowering plants of the genus Claytonia, especially C. virginica, of eastern North America, having narrow leaves and racemes of white or pinkish flowers

Related Terms

carolina spring beauty

similar to Claytonia virginica but having usually pink flowers; eastern North America

virginia spring beauty

small cormous perennial grown for its low rosette of succulent foliage and racemes of pink-tinged white flowers; eastern North America

Hyphenation

spring beau·ty

Turkish pronunciation

spırîng byuti

Pronunciation

/spərˈəɴɢ ˈbyo͞otē/ /spɜrˈɪŋ ˈbjuːtiː/