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Definition of Anemopsis
1. Noun. One species: yerba mansa.
Generic synonyms: Dicot Genus, Magnoliopsid Genus
Group relationships: Family Saururaceae, Lizard's-tail Family, Saururaceae
Member holonyms: Anemopsis Californica, Yerba Mansa
Lexicographical Neighbors of Anemopsis
Literary usage of Anemopsis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Companion to the United States Pharmacopoeia by Oscar Oldberg, Otto Augustus Wall (1884)
"... blackish brown, contains a brown acrid juice in the shell. Like *^e true
Anacardium in constituents and properties. See Fig. 36. anemopsis. anemopsis. ..."
2. The English Rock-garden by Reginald John Farrer (1919)
"anemopsis comes here not because its name is really anemopsis (for it is, in
fact, Houttuynia californica, and there is another one, H. cordata, in Japan), ..."
3. A University Text-book of Botany by Douglas Houghton. Campbell (1907)
"Fi dehiscing ripe fruit. ij seed. The order is represented in the United States
by Saururus (Fig. 393) and anemopsis, the latter being Cali- ..."
4. Fenner's Working Formulae, a Hand-book of the Old and the New Pharmacopoeias by Byron Fenner (1884)
"The root of anemopsis Califor- nica. Aromatic, tonic, astringent, stimulant.
In malarial fever, rheumatism, diarrhoea, etc. ..."
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