Definition of Sideritis

1. Noun. Genus of woolly aromatic herbs or subshrubs or shrubs of Mediterranean region.

Exact synonyms: Genus Sideritis
Generic synonyms: Asterid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Family Labiatae, Family Lamiaceae, Labiatae, Lamiaceae, Mint Family

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sideritis

Sicilians
Sicily
Siculo-
Sid
Sid Caesar
Sida hermaphrodita
Sida rhombifolia
Sida spinosa
Sidalcea
Sidalcea malviflora
Siddhartha
Siddons
Side-striped Jackal
Side-striped Jackals
Siderian
Sideritis (current term)
Sidhe
Sidney
Sidney Caesar
Sidney James Webb
Sidney Poitier
Sidney Webb
Sidon
Sidonian
Sidonians
Sidonie-Gabrielle Claudine Colette
Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
Sieg Heil
Siege Perilous
Siegel zero

Literary usage of Sideritis

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

1. The Natural History of Pliny by Pliny, John Bostock, Henry Thomas Riley (1857)
"... by some called " sideritis,"88 is a stone of 85 "Myrrh stone." It was an Eastern compound, probably. Sea Chapter 64, Note 25. * " Wart stone. ..."

2. The Floral Cabinet and Magazine of Exotic Botany by George Beauchamp Knowles, Frederic Westcott (1837)
"Sideritis Alpina Vill. ? This plant is not introduced on account of its beauty, for to that it has certainly no pretension. At the same time it has an air ..."

3. The Gardeners Dictionaryby Philip Miller by Philip Miller (1754)
"or All-heal, with hairy crenated Leave«. 7. Sideritis ... RH. Upright Spanish All-heal, with a narrow Leaf. 8. Sideritis ..."

4. A Botanical Materia Medica by Jonathan Stokes (1812)
"Sideritis prima. Fuchs. 730, с. 296, cop. in Sideritis vulg :rís hirsuta. Bauh. J. iii. ... Sideritis. Dale 154. Geoffr. suite iii. 4h Sideritis flore ..."

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