Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The popular name of the plant Apocynum androsæmifolium.
- noun The Aconitum Cynoctonum.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) See
dogbane .
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Apocynum cannabinum, L. A. pubescens, Ell.Sk. Indian hemp; dog's-bane; old Amy-root; grows along fences in wet soils; collected in St. John's; vicinity of Charleston; Newbern.
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These are small flowers, of the dog's-bane kind, very much resembling each other in shape and smell, highly fragrant, but very different from every product of an English garden.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13 Robert Kerr 1784
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