(n) a floating or creeping Indian lettuce having terminal racemes of pale rose flowers; wet areas at high elevations of western North America, Syn. Montia chamissoi
[やまほととぎす, yamahototogisu] (n) (1) (山杜鵑 only) (uk) (See 時鳥) lesser cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus) (esp. one living in the mountains); (2) Tricyrtis macropoda (species of toad lily)