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Definition of Asarum
1. Noun. Wild ginger.
Generic synonyms: Dicot Genus, Magnoliopsid Genus
Group relationships: Aristolochiaceae, Birthwort Family, Family Aristolochiaceae
Member holonyms: Wild Ginger, Asarum Shuttleworthii, Heart-leaf, Heartleaf
Definition of Asarum
1. a perennial herb [n -S]
Medical Definition of Asarum
1. A genus of plants of the family Aristolochiaceae. Origin: L., fr. G. Asaron, hazelwort (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Asarum
Literary usage of Asarum
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hand-book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1860)
"asarum-oil, treated with iodine, gives off yellowish red vapours, and forms a
yellow-brown resin. Heated with nitric acid, it gives off gas, ..."
2. The Natural History of Pliny by Pliny, John Bostock, Henry Thomas Riley (1856)
"It is generally stated that asarum" is good for affections of the liver, taken
in doses of ... n In c. 16 of this Book. " In B. xii. c. 26. 71 The asarum ..."
3. Plant Life of Alabama: An Account of the Distribution, Modes of Association by Charles Mohr (1901)
"Smith). Flowers maroon ; March, April; rare. Type locality : " Hal), in Virginia,
terra Mariana, Carolina." Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. asarum macranthum ..."
4. A Practical Treatise on Animal and Vegetable Fats and Oils: Comprising Both by William Theodore Brannt, Karl Schaedler (1896)
"By distilling asarum oil by itself considerable decomposition takes place at ...
asarum oil dissolves iodine, with heating and disengagement of yellow red ..."
5. Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and by Francis Peyre Porcher (1869)
"... periodical headaches, vertigo, etc.; one scruple of the fresh or one drachm
of the dried root and leaves was employed as an emetic and cathartic. asarum ..."
6. King's American Dispensatory by John King, Harvey Wickes Felter, John Uri Lloyd (1905)
"The rhizome and rootlets of the asarum canadense, Linné. ... asarum canadense is
a spicy, stimulating agent, causing perspiration, promoting expectoration, ..."
7. The Microanalysis of Powdered Vegetable Drugs by Albert Schneider (1921)
"asarum. Wild Ginger. Fl. ex. 60. Syrup, coarse powder. ... G. Asaret, Fr.
The rhizomes and roots of asarum canadense L., ..."
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