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Definition of Celandine
1. Noun. North American annual plant with usually yellow or orange flowers; grows chiefly on wet rather acid soil.
Generic synonyms: Herb, Herbaceous Plant
Group relationships: Genus Impatiens
2. Noun. Perennial herb with branched woody stock and bright yellow flowers.
Generic synonyms: Poppy
Group relationships: Chelidonium, Genus Chelidonium
Definition of Celandine
1. n. A perennial herbaceous plant (Chelidonium majus) of the poppy family, with yellow flowers. It is used as a medicine in jaundice, etc., and its acrid saffron-colored juice is used to cure warts and the itch; -- called also greater celandine and swallowwort.
Definition of Celandine
1. Noun. Either of two unrelated flowering plants: ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Celandine
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Celandine
Literary usage of Celandine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Lady's Book of Flowers and Poetry: To which are Added, a Botanical edited by Lucy Hooper (1842)
"TO THE SMALL celandine. ANON. ... Long as there are Violets, They will have a
place in story; There's a flower that shall be mine, Tis the little celandine. ..."
2. The Dublin Journal of Medical Science (1897)
"JOSEPH REDMOND read a paper on the treatment of cancer with celandine (Chelidonium,
majus). ... All cases were improving under treatment with celandine. ..."
3. Poetry of the Seasons by Mary Isabella Lovejoy (1898)
"TO THE SMALL celandine. ... Long as there are violets, They will have a place in
story ; There's a flower that shall be mine, 'Tis the little celandine. ..."
4. A Classical Technology by John Miller Burnam (1920)
"THIRD celandine • Third celandine: dye as we have said with yellow( and ...
THIRD celandine (681 A) Take madder and crush well, put in a melting pot and ..."
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