Definition of Caltha palustris

1. Noun. Swamp plant of Europe and North America having bright yellow flowers resembling buttercups.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Caltha Palustris

Calori
Calori's bursa
Caloscypha fulgens
Calosoma scrutator
Calostoma cinnabarina
Calostoma lutescens
Calostoma ravenelii
Calostomataceae
Calot
Calot's triangle
Caloundra
Calpe
Calpha-dehydrogenase
Caltanissetta
Caltha
Caltha palustris (current term)
Calum
Calusa
Caluyanon
Calvados
Calvary
Calvary clover
Calvary cross
Calvatia
Calvatia gigantea
Calve
Calve-Perthes disease
Calvert Vaux
Calvin
Calvin Benson cycle

Literary usage of Caltha palustris

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

1. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Eberhard Goebel (1905)
"Caltha palustris. As an example I take Caltha palustris, of which Fig. 246 shows in the figure to the left ... Caltha palustris. Young leaves dissected oat. ..."

2. A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica by John Henry Clarke (1900)
"Caltha palustris. Marsh Marigold. NO Ranunculaceae. Tincture of fresh shoots and Clinical.—Cancer. Pemphigus. flowers. Characteristics. ..."

3. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1897)
"Caltha palustris L. Sp. Pl. 558. 1753. Stout, glabrous, stem hollow, erect or ascending, i°-2° high, branching and bearing several flowers. ..."

4. The Oxonian in Iceland; Or, Notes of Travel in that Island in the Summer of by Frederick Metcalfe (1861)
"... judgment of heaven — Kissing the parson—The virtues of Caltha palustris—Icelandic worship—A national ..."

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