noun
1. wild ginger having persistent heart-shaped pungent leaves; West Virginia to Alabama
• Syn: ↑heart-leaf, ↑Asarum shuttleworthii
• Hypernyms: ↑herb, ↑herbaceous plant
• Member Holonyms: ↑Asarum, ↑genus Asarum
2. evergreen low-growing perennial having mottled green and silvery-grey heart-shaped pungent leaves; Virginia to South Carolina
• Syn: ↑heart-leaf, ↑Asarum virginicum
• Hypernyms: ↑wild ginger
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\\ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷\ noun : any of several wild gingers that have distinctly cordate leaves and are usually included in the genus Asarum but are sometimes segregated in a separate genus
Useful english dictionary. 2012.