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Definition of Coptis
1. Noun. Small genus of low perennial herbs having yellow rhizomes and white or yellow flowers.
Generic synonyms: Magnoliid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Buttercup Family, Crowfoot Family, Family Ranunculaceae, Ranunculaceae
Member holonyms: Coptis Groenlandica, Coptis Trifolia Groenlandica, Golden Thread, Goldthread
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coptis
Literary usage of Coptis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Drugs and medicines of North America: A Publication Devoted to the by John Uri Lloyd, Curtis Gates Lloyd (1885)
"Both of the Western species differ from coptis trifolia in habitat, ... The following
synopsis of the geographical distribution of coptis species in the ..."
2. Journal of Materia Medica (1868)
"coptis TRIFOLIATA.—I tried the fluid extract of coptis Tri- foliata in a severe
cough, emaciation, febris lenta, and haemoptysis, in doses of 25 drops five ..."
3. A Manual of Examinations: Upon Anatomy, Physiology, Surgery, Practice of by John Livingston Ludlow (1867)
"The root of the coptis trifolia, which grows in the United States. Fig. 333.
What is the appearance of the root, and to what does it impart it« virtues? ..."
4. A Guide to therapeutics and materia medica by Robert Farquharson, Frank Woodbury (1882)
"coptis'trifolia, USM Goldthread is an indigenous bitter tonic resembling quassia,
for which it may be substituted. It may be given in substance (gr.x-xxx, ..."
5. A Manual of the Medical Botany of North America by Laurence Johnson (1884)
"Like hydrastis and coptis, both of which it resembles in respect to constituents,
xanthorhiza possesses simple bitter tonic properties. ..."
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