Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several perennial plants of the genus Doronicum in the composite family, native to Eurasia and widely cultivated for their yellow flower heads borne on long stalks.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A plant of the genus Doronicum.
- noun A medicinal plant, Arnica montana.
- noun Same as
herb-paris .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A name of several harmless plants, as
Arnica montana (Arnica acaulis syn.Doronicum acaule ),Senecio Doronicum , andParis quadrifolia .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of several herbs of the genus Doronicum having alternate often clasping stem leaves cultivated for their long stalks of yellow flower heads
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Translation of Latin pardalianches, a kind of aconite or leopard's bane (said by Pliny the Elder to have been rubbed on meat in the belief that it would cause leopards that ate it to die from asphyxiation), from Greek pardaliankhes : pardalis, leopard + -ankhes, neuter of -ankhēs, strangler, killer (from ankhein, to strangle).]
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chained_bear commented on the word leopard's bane
usage note on aconite
March 19, 2008
sionnach commented on the word leopard's bane
Not to be confused with Omarosa's bane.
March 19, 2008