Definition of Heracleum

1. Noun. Widely distributed genus of plants with usually thick rootstocks and large umbels of white flowers.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Heracleum

Hephthalites
Hephzibah
Hephæstos
Hephæstus
Heptateuch
Hepworth
Her Honor
Her Maj
Her Majesty
Her Royal Highness
Hera
Heracleitus
Heracleonite
Heracleonites
Heracles
Heracleum (current term)
Heracleum sphondylium
Heraclitus
Herakles
Heraklion
Herat
Herati
Heratis
Herb
Herb Simon
Herbart
Herbert
Herbert A. Simon
Herbert Alexander Simon
Herbert Blythe

Literary usage of Heracleum

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica: A Record of the Positive Effects of by Timothy Field Allen (1876)
"... and a cessation of most of the remaining dyspeptic symptoms.) Heracleum. ... Heracleum sphondylium, Linn. Author!/;/. Dr. Rosenburg, Archiv f. ..."

2. A Practical Treatise on Animal and Vegetable Fats and Oils: Comprising Both by William Theodore Brannt, Karl Schaedler (1896)
"The latter fraction was oily and without taste and odor. Schorlemmer proved the octyl alcohol of Heracleum oil to be primary normal alcohol. ..."

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