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Definition of Blue skullcap
1. Noun. An American mint that yields a resinous exudate used especially formerly as an antispasmodic.
Generic synonyms: Herb, Herbaceous Plant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blue Skullcap
Literary usage of Blue skullcap
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Systematic Arrangement of British Plants: With an Easy Introduction to the by William Withering (1801)
"blue skullcap. Banks of rivers and edges of ponds. [Side of the stews at Edgbaston.]
P. Aug.* S. Leaves heart-egg-shaped, nearly entire : flowers axillary. ..."
2. An Island Garden by Celia Thaxter (1894)
"... growing among the goldenrod and blue skullcap at the top of the rocky little
coves that slope down to the water about the island, throwing itself from ..."
3. Collected Plays and Poems by Cale Young Rice (1915)
"... spires beside the gap And lady phlox within the hollow's cool; Cedar with
sudden memories of Yule Above the tangle tipped with blue skullcap. ..."
4. Brazil by Errol Lincoln Uys (2000)
"He wore sandals and, on his head, a small blue skullcap; his hand clasped a great
staff. He carried with him, too, wherever he went, ..."
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