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mad-dog skullcap

Definitions

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

  • noun A North American perennial plant (Scutellaria lateriflora) in the mint family, having one-sided clusters of two-lipped blue or white flowers.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.) An American mint (Scutellaria lateriflora) that yields a resinous exudate used esp. formerly as an antispasmodic.

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

  • noun an American mint that yields a resinous exudate used especially formerly as an antispasmodic

Etymologies

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

[So called from its use as an antispasmodic.]

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