Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In some parts of England, the lady's-mantle, Alchemilla vulgaris, from the shape of the leaf. The name is said to be given in the United States to the May-apple, Podophyllum peltatum.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) The May apple (
Podophyllum peltatum ).
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Examples
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There is a plant in our woods, known by the names of man-drake, may - apple, and duck's-foot: the botanical name of the plant is Podophyllum; it belongs to the class and order _Polyandria monogynia_.
The Backwoods of Canada Being Letters From The Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America Catharine Parr Strickland Traill 1850
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