Definition of Consumption weed

1. Noun. A shrub of salt marshes of eastern and south central North America and West Indies; fruit is surrounded with white plumelike hairy tufts.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Consumption Weed

consummate(a)
consummated
consummately
consummates
consummating
consummations
consummative
consummator
consummators
consummatory
consummatory behaviour
consumpt
consumption
consumption coagulopathy
consumption weed (current term)
consumptions
consumptive
consumptive wildlife use
consumptively
consumptiveness
consumptives
consumpts
cont
cont'd
contact
contact-lens
contact-type dermatitis
contact action
contact allergy

Literary usage of Consumption weed

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

1. The New Sydenham Society's Lexicon of Medicine and the Allied Sciences ...by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society (1882)
"consumption weed, bear's weed, mountain balm. Ibid at one time a reputation in chronic bronchitis and in pulmonary consumption; it is a stimulating ..."

2. Publications of the Folk-Lore Foundation by Vassar College Folk-lore Foundation (1922)
"Other names derive from the disease which they cure, such as "Fever-grass," "Worm-weed," "Snake-weed," or "Consumption-weed." "Temper-weed" cures wrath; ..."

3. Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and by Francis Peyre Porcher (1869)
"... consumption weed, (Baccharis ha- limi/olia. L.) Grows along the seacoast ; collected it St. John's, where it is found in abundance ; vicinity of ..."

4. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord. Britton, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"Consumption-weed. June—July. Included in P. rotundifolia L. in our first edition, which proves to be a distinct Old World species. Hornem. ..."

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