Definition of Common valerian

1. Noun. Tall rhizomatous plant having very fragrant flowers and rhizomes used medicinally.

Exact synonyms: Garden Heliotrope, Valeriana Officinalis
Generic synonyms: Valerian

Lexicographical Neighbors of Common Valerian

common stinkhorn
common stock
common stock equivalent
common stocks
common sunflower
common tarweed
common teasel
common tendinous ring
common thorn apple
common thyme
common time
common tobacco
common topaz
common touch
common unicorn plant
common valerian (current term)
common variable immunodeficiency
common vehicle spread
common vetchling
common viper
common vole
common voles
common wallaby
common wart
common wasp
common water snake
common watercress
common wheat
common white dogwood
common whitefish

Literary usage of Common valerian

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain), George Long (1843)
"... the common Valerian, and is used by the Hindus in medicine in the same manner as the common Valerian in this country. This is the plant which Sir /•'. ..."

2. Lessons in Elementary Botany: The Part of Systematic Botany Based Upon by Daniel Oliver, John Stevens Henslow (1895)
"An erect perennial herb, with opposite pinnatifid leaves, and terminal many-flowered cymes of small pale lilac or white flowers. Type—common valerian ..."

3. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1902)
"common valerian. GARDEN HELIOTROPE. CAT'S VALERIAN. ST. GEORGE'S HERB. Fig. 2632. Somewhat pubescent: stem erect, simple below but somewhat branching above, ..."

4. The Treasury of Botany: A Popular Dictionary of the Vegetable Kingdom; with by John Lindley (1866)
"V. pyre.mica, occasionally found wild, is a larger plant than the common Valerian, from which also it may be known by its broad heart-shaped toothed leaves. ..."

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