Definition of American columbo

1. Noun. Any of various tall perennial herbs constituting the genus Frasera; widely distributed in warm dry upland areas of California, Oregon, and Washington.

Exact synonyms: American Gentian, Columbo, Deer's-ear, Deer's-ears, Pyramid Plant
Generic synonyms: Herb, Herbaceous Plant
Group relationships: Frasera, Genus Frasera

Lexicographical Neighbors of American Columbo

American black vultures
American blight
American bog asphodel
American brooklime
American buffalo
American bugbane
American capital
American centaury
American chameleon
American cheese
American chestnut
American cocker spaniel
American cocker spaniels
American cockroach
American cockroaches
American columbo (current term)
American coot
American copper
American crab apple
American cranberry
American cranberry bush
American crayfish
American creeper
American cress
American crow
American dewberry
American dog tick
American dog violet
American dogwood
American dun-bar

Literary usage of American columbo

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

1. Organic materia medica: Including the Standard Remedies of the Leading by Parke, Davis & Company (1888)
"American columbo rool, compressed in pound packages for retailing purposes. ... Fluid Extract American columbo. Miscible with water without material ..."

2. King's American Dispensatory by John King, Harvey Wickes Felter, John Uri Lloyd (1905)
"American columbo is an indigenous plant, with a triennial, long, fusiform, horizontal, rugose, ... American columbo has been investigated by Douglass (Amer. ..."

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