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Definition of Black archangel
1. Noun. Ill-smelling European herb with rugose leaves and whorls of dark purple flowers.
Generic synonyms: Herb, Herbaceous Plant
Group relationships: Ballota, Genus Ballota
Lexicographical Neighbors of Black Archangel
Literary usage of Black archangel
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1886)
"Wr. black archangel. See Archangel. Blackball. Tilletia caries, Tul., and Ustilago
carbo, Tul.—E. Bord. Bot. E. Bord. Black Bent. See Bent, Black. ..."
2. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord. Britton, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"In waste places, eastern Massachusetts to Pennsylvania. Naturalized from Europe.
June-Sept. black archangel. ..."
3. The London Magazine by John Scott, John Taylor (1822)
"Oh ! what avails the vast extended wild " Of empire, stretching from the frozen
port ' Of black Archangel to the narrow Frith ' That eastward severs from ..."
4. The Children and the Pictures by Pamela Grey (1907)
"St. John's Wort against lightning and evil charms. Colchicum for rheumatism, and
the like. . . . Here are black archangel and Key- of-Spring, ..."
5. Memorials of Edward Burne-Jones by Georgiana Burne-Jones (1904)
"... and Love in a Tangle, and Witches' Tree and the Grave of the Sea and Black
Archangel and Golden Greeting. I wish Golden Greeting were quite true—just as ..."
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