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Definition of Podophyllum peltatum

1. Noun. North American herb with poisonous root stock and edible though insipid fruit.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Podophyllum Peltatum

Literary usage of Podophyllum peltatum

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

1. American Medical Botany: Being a Collection of the Native Medicinal Plants by Jacob Bigelow (1818)
"JL HE Podophyllum peltatum or May apple, otherwise called Mandrake in this country, inhabits low shady situations from New England to Georgia. ..."

2. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1869)
"The leaves of Podophyllum peltatum are said to be poisonous, (U. 8. Disp.) Is this true? Are they cathartic, and to what principle is their activity due '! ..."

3. Medicinal Plants: Being Descriptions with Original Figures of the Principal by Robert Bentley, Henry Trimen (1880)
"45; Baill., iii, p. 74. Species 2, one North American, the other from the Himalaya.. Podophyllum peltatum, Linn., Sp. Plant., cd. I, p. 505 (). May-apple. ..."

4. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1899)
"The June number of the Botanical Gazette contains the following articles: A morphological study of Podophyllum peltatum,\>y Theo ..."

5. Leaders in Homœopathic Therapeutics by Eugene Beauharnais Nash (1901)
"Podophyllum peltatum. There are many remedies that are powerful cathartics, and this is one of them. A superficial understanding of our law of cure would ..."

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