Definition of Dog mercury

1. Noun. European perennial weedy plant with greenish flowers.

Exact synonyms: Dog's Mercury, Mercurialis Perennis
Generic synonyms: Herb, Herbaceous Plant
Group relationships: Genus Mercurialis, Mercurialis

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dog Mercury

dog fight
dog flea
dog food
dog fur
dog guide
dog hobble
dog hook
dog house
dog houses
dog in the hunt
dog in the manger
dog it
dog laurel
dog meat
dog mercury (current term)
dog musher
dog my cats
dog nose
dog paddle
dog person
dog pound
dog racing
dog rose
dog roses
dog scooter
dog scooters
dog show
dog sled

Literary usage of Dog mercury

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

1. The Travels Through England of Dr. Richard Pococke, Successively Bishop of by Richard Pococke, James Joel Cartwright (1888)
"This country abounds in dog's mercury and in pimpinella and burnet, which grows wild; there is also a great deal of a large campanula, some blue and some ..."

2. The Evolutionist at Large by Grant Allen (1881)
"On the same principle, a somewhat similar plant being known as mercury, this perennial weed becomes dog's mercury. Both, of course, go back to ..."

3. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"... the dog's-mercury, is a poisonous weed, with a simple erect stem six or eight incites high, the oblong or ovate-lanceolate leaves crowded on its upper ..."

4. The London Magazine by John Scott, John Taylor (1826)
"I will sell you " unobjected currency," you shall have snuff made of bug-agaric, henbane, dog's-mercury, and wolf's-bane ; and if you die, your death will ..."

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