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Definition of Pulsatilla
1. Noun. Includes a group of plants that in some classifications are included in the genus Anemone: pasqueflowers.
Generic synonyms: Magnoliid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Buttercup Family, Crowfoot Family, Family Ranunculaceae, Ranunculaceae
Member holonyms: Pasque Flower, Pasqueflower
Definition of Pulsatilla
1. n. A genus of ranunculaceous herbs including the pasque flower. This genus is now merged in Anemone. Some species, as Anemone Pulsatilla, Anemone pratensis, and Anemone patens, are used medicinally.
Definition of Pulsatilla
1. Noun. Any of several plants, of the former genus ''Pulsatilla'', including the pasque flower, some of which are used as medicinal herbs ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pulsatilla
Literary usage of Pulsatilla
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Clinical materia medica by Ernest Albert Farrington (1897)
"TO-DAY we have to study Pulsatilla. The species which I shall consider is the
Pulsatilla of Hahnemann, the Pulsatilla pratensis and not the American plant, ..."
2. American Druggist (1890)
"Perhaps few plants exhibit such marked variations in different districts as
Pulsatilla, and if the systematic botanist ever makes a hobby of this species he ..."
3. A Manual of Pharmacodynamics by Richard Hughes (1870)
"Pulsatilla. I SHALL devote a whole letter to-day to one ... The proving of the
Pulsatilla nigricans is in the ' Ma- teria Medica Pura. ..."
4. A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica by John Henry Clarke (1902)
"Pulsatilla pratensis. Pasque Flower. (Sunny, sandy pastures in Central and ...
As some confusion has arisen as to the Pulsatilla of homoeopathic use, ..."
5. Pittonia by Edward Lee Greene (1905)
"It is therefore a more strongly fortified genus than is Pulsatilla as compared
with Anemone; for in this instance the style in neither genus is either bent ..."
6. A Compend of Materia Medica, Therapeutics and Prescription Writing: With by Samuel Otway Lewis Potter (1906)
"Pulsatilla is the herb, collected soon after flowering, of Anemone Pulsatilla
and Anemone pratensis, small, herbal plants of the nat. ord. ..."
7. A Compend of Human Anatomy by Samuel Otway Lewis Potter (1903)
"Pulsatilla is the herb, collected soon after flowering, of Anemone Pulsatilla
and Anemone pratensis, small, herbal plants of the nat. ord. ..."
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