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Definition of Selfheal
1. n. A blue-flowered labiate plant (Brunella vulgaris); the healall.
Definition of Selfheal
1. Noun. small, herbaceous European plant with blue-violet flowers; ''Prunella vulgaris'' ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Selfheal
1. a perennial herb [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Selfheal
Literary usage of Selfheal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Systematic Arrangement of British Plants: With an Easy Introduction to the by William Withering (1801)
"... end : lower lip, middle segment jagged. Summit, segments rolled back. Bloss.
blue, purplish, or white. Common selfheal. Meadows and pastures. P. Aug. ..."
2. Contributions Towards a Fauna and Flora of the County of Cork by J. R. Harvey, Thomas C. Power, John D. Humphreys (1845)
"... by new road: Dr. Power.—rather rare. 253. PRUNELLA, Linn. selfheal. 537. P.
vulgaris, L. Common selfheal. Glasheen and in pastures.—very common. ..."
3. British Farmer's Magazine (1855)
"selfheal, Or the " Prunella" of botany, is a very abundant weed on poor clay soils,
... The " Common selfheal," or the " Prunella vnl- garis," has the root ..."
4. An Introduction to Systematic and Physiological Botany by Thomas Nuttall (1827)
"Some, such as the selfheal, have but little odor of any kind. five bristly points,
four ovules, at length becoming four naked seeds. ..."
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