Lexicographical Neighbors of Salfern
Literary usage of Salfern
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)
"... waste places and fields, Quebec to Ontario and ized from Europe. Native also
of Asia. Pearl-plant. salfern- ..."
2. An Arrangement of British Plants: According to the Latest Improvements of by William Withering (1830)
"... three or four times as long as the seeds, but in the preceding species not
twice their length. CORN GROMWELL. BASTARD ALKANET. salfern. PAINTING ROOT. ..."
3. A Dictionary of English Plant-names by James Britten, Robert Holland (1886)
"Mario, L. We have never met with the name applied to the plant, but only to the
product so called.] salfern. ..."
4. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood (1865)
"... chatter, tattle, a sense constantly expressed by terms taken from the agitation
of water ; salfern, to spatter; ..."
5. Plant Names, Scientific and Popular, Including in the Case of Each Plant the by Albert Brown Lyons (1900)
"... Painting-plant, Pearl-plant, salfern (ie Saffron), Stone-seed. Hoot of this
and the following species yields a red dye. b. ..."
6. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"... waste places and fields, Quebec to Ontario and ized from Europe. Native also
of Asia. Pearl-plant. salfern- ..."
7. An Arrangement of British Plants: According to the Latest Improvements of by William Withering (1830)
"... three or four times as long as the seeds, but in the preceding species not
twice their length. CORN GROMWELL. BASTARD ALKANET. salfern. PAINTING ROOT. ..."
8. A Dictionary of English Plant-names by James Britten, Robert Holland (1886)
"Mario, L. We have never met with the name applied to the plant, but only to the
product so called.] salfern. ..."
9. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood (1865)
"... chatter, tattle, a sense constantly expressed by terms taken from the agitation
of water ; salfern, to spatter; ..."
10. Plant Names, Scientific and Popular, Including in the Case of Each Plant the by Albert Brown Lyons (1900)
"... Painting-plant, Pearl-plant, salfern (ie Saffron), Stone-seed. Hoot of this
and the following species yields a red dye. b. ..."
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