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Definition of Apocynum
1. Noun. Perennial herbs with small pink or white flowers.
Generic synonyms: Dicot Genus, Magnoliopsid Genus
Group relationships: Apocynaceae, Dogbane Family, Family Apocynaceae
Member holonyms: Dogbane
Lexicographical Neighbors of Apocynum
Literary usage of Apocynum
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1900)
"apocynum.—DR. TB McGEE, mentioning the aids to digitalis in chronic cardiac ...
apocynum causes no cumulative effects, and it will occasionally prove ..."
2. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1886)
"apocynum Cannabinum as a Diuretic.—The treatment of dropsy with apocynum
Cannabinum (American Indian hemp, by no means to be confounded with ..."
3. Therapeutic Gazette (1898)
"apocynum CANNABINUM. BY WILLIAM D. TURNER, MD, Pasadena, California. The comments
of one of your contributors on the action of apocynum cannabinum in your ..."
4. Rubber-content of North American Plants by Harvey Monroe Hall, Frances Louise Long (1921)
"VARIATION IN THE RUBBER-CONTENT OF ASCLEPIAS AND apocynum. ... Since the rubber
both in Asclepias and in apocynum is carried by the latex, ..."
5. American Observer Medical Monthly (1864)
"Several days had now elapsed, and I now resolved to try the apocynum c. ...
The discharge was fluid, and still undiminished. left apocynum to be taken in ..."
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