Definition of Levisticum officinale

1. Noun. Herb native to southern Europe; cultivated for its edible stalks and foliage and seeds.

Exact synonyms: Lovage
Terms within: Lovage
Generic synonyms: Herb, Herbaceous Plant
Group relationships: Genus Levisticum, Levisticum

Lexicographical Neighbors of Levisticum Officinale

Levant morocco
Levantine
Levantine Arabic
Levenshtein distance
Levenshtein distances
Levi
Levi's
Levi-Strauss
Levin tube
Levinea
Levinea amalonatica
Levinea diversus
Levinea malonatica
Levis
Levisticum
Levisticum officinale (current term)
Levite
Levites
Levitical
Leviticus
Levret
Levret's forceps
Levy
Lewandowski
Lewesian
Lewis
Lewis Carroll
Lewis Henry Morgan
Lewis acid

Literary usage of Levisticum officinale

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

1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"Levisticum officinale Koch, Nov. Act Nat. Cur. I21: 101. 1824. Levisticum Levisticum Karst. Deutsch. Fl. 844. 1882. Stout, branched, 6° high or less, ..."

2. A Manual of organic materia medica: Being a Guide to Materia Medica of the by John Michael Maisch (1892)
"Properties and Dose.—Similar to preceding. ticu LEVISTICUM.—LOVAGE. Origin.—Levisticum officinale, Koch, s. Ligusticum Levis- ticum, Linné. ..."

3. The Vascular Flora of Pennsylvania: Annotated Checklist and Atlas by Ann Fowler Rhoads, William M. Klein (1993)
"Levisticum officinale WDJKoch Lovage Herbaceous perennial Cultivated and occasionally escaped to fields and river banks. Levisticum levisticum (L.) Karst. ..."

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