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Definition of Daphne mezereum
1. Noun. Small European deciduous shrub with fragrant lilac-colored flowers followed by red berries on highly toxic twigs.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Daphne Mezereum
Literary usage of Daphne mezereum
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Botany; Or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with Their Essential ...by Sir James Edward Smith, James Sowerby by Sir James Edward Smith, James Sowerby (1796)
"Berry with one seed. SPEC. CHAR. Flowers sessile, about three together, placed
on the stem. Leaves lanceolate, deciduous. SYN. daphne mezereum. Linn. ..."
2. Homœopathic therapeutics by Samuel Lilienthal (1879)
"... fits of fainting and constant chilliness of the whole body. daphne mezereum.
Leucorrhœa resembling albumen, malignant, chronic ; discharge of ..."
3. Materia Medica and Therapeutics: Including Pharmacy and Pharmacology by Reynold Webb Wilcox (1917)
"The dried bark of daphne mezereum l.inne. ... outer surface yellowish or
olive-brown (daphne mezereum) or purplish-brown (Daphne Gnidium) or purplish-gray ..."
4. Origin and History of All the Pharmacopeial Vegetable Drugs, Chemicals and by John Uri Lloyd (1921)
"U. S, P., 1910, directs the bark of daphne mezereum, Daphne Gnidium or of Daphne
... daphne mezereum is an acrid shrub familiar to persons conversant with ..."