Definition of Menispermum

1. Noun. Climbing herbs.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Menispermum

Menehunes
Menelaus
Menetrier's disease
Menetrier's syndrome
Menge's pessary
Mengen
Mengo encephalitis
Mengo virus
Meniere
Meniere's disease
Meniere's syndrome
Menippe
Menippe mercenaria
Meniscium
Menkalinan
Menkar
Menninger
Menno
Mennonite
Mennonite Church
Mennonite Low German
Mennonites
Mennonitism
Mennos
Menoetius
Menologia

Literary usage of Menispermum

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

1. The Microanalysis of Powdered Vegetable Drugs by Albert Schneider (1921)
"Menispermum. Menispermum. Fl. ex. 60. Canadian moon seed, yellow parilla, ... Fr. The rhizomes and rootlets of Menispermum canadense L., ..."

2. A Manual of the Medical Botany of North America by Laurence Johnson (1884)
"Menispermum Canadense Linne.—Canadian Moonseed. Description.—Calyx : sepals 4 to 8, ovate-oblong, greenish-yellow. Corolla : petals 6 to 8, much smaller ..."

3. Materia Medica and Therapeutics, for Physicians and Students by John Barclay Biddle (1886)
"The ointment is also used as a stimulating application to blistered surfaces and indolent ulcers. Menispermum. Menispermum is the RHIZOME and ROOTLETS of ..."

4. A Manual of organic materia medica: Being a Guide to Materia Medica of the by John Michael Maisch (1892)
"Dose, 1 to 4 grams (gr. xv-5j), in powder and extract. Menispermum.—YELLOW PARILLA. Origin. ... Menispermum ..."

5. Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (1852)
"... of Poisoning froin the External Application o/Cocculus in- dicus ; (Menispermum Cocculus : Moonseed). Reported by ^^^ILLIA.^I B. THOMPSON, Sen. ..."

6. Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States by Asa Gray (1857)
"(Menispermum Lyoni, Pursh^i — Rich soil, S. Kentucky. May. — Stems climbing to the tops of trees. Leaves large, thin, deeply 3 - 5-lobed, cordate at the ..."

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