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Definition of Anthemis
1. Noun. Dog fennel.
Generic synonyms: Asterid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Aster Family, Asteraceae, Compositae, Family Asteraceae, Family Compositae
Member holonyms: Anthemis Cotula, Dog Fennel, Mayweed, Stinking Chamomile, Stinking Mayweed, Anthemis Tinctoria, Dyers' Chamomile, Golden Marguerite, Yellow Chamomile, Anthemis Arvensis, Corn Chamomile, Corn Mayweed, Field Chamomile
Definition of Anthemis
1. n. Chamomile; a genus of composite, herbaceous plants.
Definition of Anthemis
1. Noun. (botany) camomile ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Anthemis
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Anthemis
Literary usage of Anthemis
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 (1856)
"The anthemis has been highly extolled by Asclepiades. ... varieties of the
anthemis, or camomile, and he identifies them as follows : the ..."
2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1886)
"anthemis nobilis, L.—Lyte; and still a commercial name for the plant. '
Joachim Camerarius, who had observed its abundance near Eome, gave it the name of ..."
3. A Practical Flora for Schools and Colleges by Oliver Rivington Willis (1894)
"The anthemis grows well throughout the middle and southern portions of the north
... anthemis is from the Greek £»0os, a flower, due to the profusion of ..."
4. The British Flora: Or, Genera and Species of British Plants: Arranged After by Robert John Thornton (1812)
"Tournefort men. tions also that some of the species of anthemis smell like an
apple, but I am inclined to think it has obtained this name from the extreme ..."
5. Flora Medica: Containing Coloured Delineations of the Various Medicinal by George Spratt (1830)
"THIS species of anthemis is a perennial plant, flowering in June and July ; it
is a native of the Levant, the South of Europe, Syria, Barbary, and Arabia. ..."
6. Powdered Vegetable Drugs by Albert Schneider (1902)
"anthemis. US Entire or bruised. Chamomille flowers, Roman or English chamomille,
... Adulterated with flowers of anthemis arvensis, Marula Co- tula, ..."
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