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Definition of Birthwort
1. Noun. Creeping plant having curving flowers thought to resemble fetuses; native to Europe; naturalized Great Britain and eastern North America.
Group relationships: Aristolochia, Genus Aristolochia
Specialized synonyms: Aristolochia Durior, Aristolochia Macrophylla, Dutchman's-pipe, Pipe Vine, Aristolochia Serpentaria, Virginia Serpentaria, Virginia Serpentary, Virginia Snakeroot
Generic synonyms: Vine
Definition of Birthwort
1. n. A genus of herbs and shrubs (Aristolochia), reputed to have medicinal properties.
Definition of Birthwort
1. Noun. (botany) A plant of the genus ''Aristolochia''. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Birthwort
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Birthwort
Literary usage of Birthwort
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"birthwort FAMILY. Herbs or shrubs, acaulescent, or with erect or twining and
leafy stems. Leaves alternate or basal, petioled, mostly cordate or reniform, ..."
2. An Encyclopædia of Trees and Shrubs: Being the Arboretum Et Fruticetum by John Claudius Loudon (1869)
"The Siphon-Ste, or Tube-flowered, birthwort. ,vj .>.••'.';', ..•.'•• . ...
Grr.; Pipe Vine, or birthwort, Amer. ; Sifo and Pipa. Ital. ..."
3. Botany of the United States North of Virginia: Comprising Descriptions of by Lewis Caleb Beck (1848)
"birthwort. (From the Greek; in allusion to its supposed medicinal virtues.)
Perianth tubular, ventricose at base, dilated at the apex and ligulate. ..."
4. Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial by Edward Balfour (1871)
"birthwort, ENG Aristolochia bracteata. Ketz. Roxb. and Л. longu, is the long-eared
birth wort. BIRTH, second (or twice born). These are terms frequently met ..."
5. The Elements of Botany for Beginners and for Schools by Asa Gray (1887)
"... birthwort FAMILY. Known from all other apetalous orders by the numerous ovules
and seeds in a 6-celled ovary, to which the lower part of the lurid calyx ..."
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