Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Culver's root or Culver's physic, Veronica Virginica.
- noun Pterocaulon pycnostachyum, a perennial herbaceous composite plant of the pine-barrens of the southern United States.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) See
colicroot .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
colicroot
Etymologies
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black + root
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Under the name blackroot, Gulver's root, and the probably erroneous botanical name (Leptandra alba), the author of a work professing to describe the Indian mode of treating diseases, entitled the "Cherokee Physician," recommends the plant as an efficient purge: "operating with mildness and certainty;" peculiarly adapted to typhoid and bilious fevers.
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