Lexic.us

Definition of Sanguinaria canadensis

1. Noun. Perennial woodland native of North America having a red root and red sap and bearing a solitary lobed leaf and white flower in early spring and having acrid emetic properties; rootstock used as a stimulant and expectorant.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sanguinaria Canadensis

Literary usage of Sanguinaria canadensis

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 (1817)
"Sanguinaria canadensis. f. Blood root. PLATE VIL AMONG the earliest visiters of spring the hota«- nist will find in almost any part of the United States the ..."

2. The Western Journal of Medicine and Surgery by Daniel Drake, Lunsford Pitts Yandell (1840)
"D. NASAL POLYPUS CURED WITH Sanguinaria canadensis. Being lately in Newark, Ohio, Dr. Brice, for more than 30 years a respectable practitioner of that place ..."

3. The Western Journal of Medicine and Surgery by Daniel Drake, Lundsford Pitts Yandell (1840)
"D. NASAL POLYPUS CURED WITH Sanguinaria canadensis. Being lately in Newark, Ohio, Dr. Brico, for more than 30 years a respectable practitioner of that place ..."

4. Personal and Political Ballads by Frank Moore (1864)
"Sanguinaria canadensis. BY JOEL BENION. I. I" KNOW the patch where the waxen, milk- white blossoms grow, On a pea-green palmate leaf by the woody slope of ..."

5. Personal and political ballads, arranged and ed. by F. Moore by Frank Moore (1864)
"... quaking, from nothing at all; The " honest uncle " in sixty-one, Who skulked in the night to Washington. —New-Orleans Crescent. Sanguinaria canadensis. ..."

6. American Medical Botany: Being a Collection of the Native Medicinal Plants by Jacob Bigelow (1817)
"Sanguinaria canadensis. f. Blood root. PLATE VIL AMONG the earliest visiters of spring the hota«- nist will find in almost any part of the United States the ..."

7. The Western Journal of Medicine and Surgery by Daniel Drake, Lunsford Pitts Yandell (1840)
"D. NASAL POLYPUS CURED WITH Sanguinaria canadensis. Being lately in Newark, Ohio, Dr. Brice, for more than 30 years a respectable practitioner of that place ..."

8. The Western Journal of Medicine and Surgery by Daniel Drake, Lundsford Pitts Yandell (1840)
"D. NASAL POLYPUS CURED WITH Sanguinaria canadensis. Being lately in Newark, Ohio, Dr. Brico, for more than 30 years a respectable practitioner of that place ..."

9. Personal and Political Ballads by Frank Moore (1864)
"Sanguinaria canadensis. BY JOEL BENION. I. I" KNOW the patch where the waxen, milk- white blossoms grow, On a pea-green palmate leaf by the woody slope of ..."

10. Personal and political ballads, arranged and ed. by F. Moore by Frank Moore (1864)
"... quaking, from nothing at all; The " honest uncle " in sixty-one, Who skulked in the night to Washington. —New-Orleans Crescent. Sanguinaria canadensis. ..."

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