[transl. of Ruppius’s name Corallorhiza.] A book-name of the orchideous plant Corallorhiza.
1854. S. Thomson, Wild Fl., III. (ed. 4), 138. One of the orchis family, the spurless coral-root, found only in a very few situations in Scotland.
1883. R. Turner, in Gd. Words, Dec., 791/2. The Coral root and … Epipogium … are of a similar saprophytic character.
¶ Sometimes erroneously used for CORALWORT.
1866. Treas. Bot., Coral-root … sometimes applied to Dentaria bulbifera.
