Definition of Blue skullcap

1. Noun. An American mint that yields a resinous exudate used especially formerly as an antispasmodic.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Blue Skullcap

blue rinse
blue room
blue rubber-bleb nevi
blue rubber bleb nevus syndrome
blue ruin
blue runner
blue sage
blue sclera
blue screen
blue screen of death
blue screens
blue screens of death
blue shark
blue sharks
blue shield
blue skullcap (current term)
blue sky
blue sky law
blue sky laws
blue spots
blue star
blue starter
blue state
blue states
blue stem
blue stone
blue story
blue straggler
blue stragglers

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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