(Veronicastrum virginicum) native to eastern North America, having whorled leaves and small white or pinkish flowers in slender spikes.' name='description'> Culver's root - definition and meaning

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A perennial herb (Veronicastrum virginicum) native to eastern North America, having whorled leaves and small white or pinkish flowers in slender spikes.
  • noun The rootstock of this plant, formerly used in medicine as a cathartic and an emetic.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as Culver's-physic.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a tall perennial herb having spikes of small white or purple flowers; common in eastern North America
  • noun a tall perennial herb having spikes of small white or purple flowers; common in eastern North America

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[After Culver, 18th-century American physician.]

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