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Definition of Dioscorea
1. Noun. Yams.
Generic synonyms: Plant Genus
Group relationships: Dioscoreaceae, Family Dioscoreaceae, Yam Family
Member holonyms: Yam, Yam Plant, Dioscorea Elephantipes, Elephant's-foot, Hottentot Bread Vine, Hottentot's Bread Vine, Tortoise Plant, Dioscorea Paniculata, Wild Yam
Definition of Dioscorea
1. n. A genus of plants. See Yam.
Medical Definition of Dioscorea
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Dioscorea
Literary usage of Dioscorea
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dr. Chase's Family Physician, Farrier, Bee-keeper, and Second Receipt Book by Alvin Wood Chase (1874)
"King says, of it: ''In the absence of any positive knowledge concerning the action
of the dioscorea (it is always customary to write words of any foreign ..."
2. A New Malagasy-English Dictionary by James Richardson (1885)
"[лиц a forest.] A twining plant with a large edible root. dioscorea ... Baker,
and other species of dioscorea. Same ae Ovi- ALA. ..."
3. Physiological materia medica, containing all that is known of the by William H. Burt (1896)
"Through the spinal nerves and abdominal sympathetic, dioscorea has three special
centers of action: I. DIGESTIVE ORGANS. Intense Neuroses of the Bowels. ..."
4. The Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia: Commercial by Edward Balfour (1885)
"It is everywhere cultivated in China, and bears dioscorea GLOBOSA. ... dioscorea
TOMENTOSA. ,S>r. Subba- dumpa, TEL. Grows in the Peninsula of India, ..."
5. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1886)
"dioscorea BULBIFERA.* BY JU LLOYD. Herewith is submitted a curiosity to the
members of the Pharmaceutical Association—a specimen of the aerial tubers from ..."
6. Saint Louis Medical and Surgical Journal (1869)
"A more extended clinical experience is daily developing a much broader range of
action for the dioscorea. For a long time it was confined almost exclusively ..."
7. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel (1905)
"... of the outer cortex take on a strongly sclerenchymatous character. Iriartea.
In Iriartea it is the lateral roots which become small thorns. dioscorea ..."
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