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Definition of Bonesets
1. boneset [n] - See also: boneset
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bonesets
Literary usage of Bonesets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Minnesota Plant Life by Conway MacMillan (1899)
"bonesets. The comfrey or boneset has purple or yellow flowers, brown nutlets,
lance-shaped leaves, hairy foliage and thick roots. Verbenas. ..."
2. The Indiana Weed Book by Willis Stanley Blatchley (1912)
"GROUP A. To this group, having the flowers of the head all tubular, belong our
weeds known as iron-weeds, bonesets or snake-roots, everlastings, ..."
3. Botany: An Elementary Text for Schools by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1901)
"... or bonesets. the functions of leaves. Even aerial roots, as of orchids, are
sometimes green. 190. The general form and structure of leaves is intimately ..."
4. The History of the State of Indiana: From the Earliest Explorations by the by William Henry Smith (1897)
"The golden rods, asters, bonesets, white tops, thistles, wild lettuce, sunflower,
Spanish needles and iron weeds are familiar examples. ..."
5. Manual of Experimental Botany by Frank Owen Payne (1912)
"The commonest ones are ironweed, the thistles, and bonesets. Suggestion. — Study
a plant of burdock or thistle as in the other exercises on composites. ..."
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