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Definition of Dropworts
1. dropwort [n] - See also: dropwort
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dropworts
Literary usage of Dropworts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletin of Pharmacy (1893)
"The water dropworts are perhaps the most virulent of umbelliferous plants, and
the resemblance of the roots of CE. crocata to parsnips, of the leaves of the ..."
2. Waste Products and Undeveloped Substances: Or, Hints for Enterprise in by Peter Lund Simmonds (1862)
"What is called Russian tea consists of the leaves of saxifrage, winter-green,
white virgin's bower, bird- cherry, dropworts, common elm, male-fern, ..."
3. The Sydney Magazine of Science and Art by Joseph Dyer, Philosophical Society of New South Wales (1858)
"... aconites, dropworts, burrs, thistles, and an hundred other trashy seeds, infest
the soil. And man wonders, when disease attacks his horse or his ox or ..."
4. Rambles in search of wild flowers, and how to distinguish them by Margaret Plues (1879)
"... who have kept a quantity in their little bedroom being found insensible in
the morning. The other members of this family call themselves dropworts. ..."
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