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Definition of Dog mercury
1. Noun. European perennial weedy plant with greenish flowers.
Generic synonyms: Herb, Herbaceous Plant
Group relationships: Genus Mercurialis, Mercurialis
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dog Mercury
Literary usage of Dog mercury
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Travels Through England of Dr. Richard Pococke, Successively Bishop of by Richard Pococke, James Joel Cartwright (1888)
"This country abounds in dog's mercury and in pimpinella and burnet, which grows
wild; there is also a great deal of a large campanula, some blue and some ..."
2. The Evolutionist at Large by Grant Allen (1881)
"On the same principle, a somewhat similar plant being known as mercury, this
perennial weed becomes dog's mercury. Both, of course, go back to ..."
3. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"... the dog's-mercury, is a poisonous weed, with a simple erect stem six or eight
incites high, the oblong or ovate-lanceolate leaves crowded on its upper ..."
4. The London Magazine by John Scott, John Taylor (1826)
"I will sell you " unobjected currency," you shall have snuff made of bug-agaric,
henbane, dog's-mercury, and wolf's-bane ; and if you die, your death will ..."
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