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Definition of Fumitory
1. Noun. Delicate European herb with greyish leaves and spikes of purplish flowers; formerly used medicinally.
Group relationships: Fumaria, Genus Fumaria
Generic synonyms: Herb, Herbaceous Plant
Definition of Fumitory
1. n. The common uame of several species of the genus Fumaria, annual herbs of the Old World, with finely dissected leaves and small flowers in dense racemes or spikes. F. officinalis is a common species, and was formerly used as an antiscorbutic.
Definition of Fumitory
1. Noun. (plants) A plant of the taxonomic genus ''Fumaria'', which are annual herbaceous flowering plants in the family Fumariaceae, native to temperate Europe and Asia. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fumitory
1. a climbing plant [n -RIES]
Medical Definition of Fumitory
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Fumitory
Literary usage of Fumitory
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Flora Domestica, Or, The Portable Flower-garden: With Directions for the by Elizabeth Kent, Leigh Hunt (1831)
"This is an elegant plant for the drawing-room or study. fumitory. ... THE Red
Canadian fumitory is a handsome plant with large flowers. ..."
2. A Manual of the Medical Botany of North America by Laurence Johnson (1884)
"fumitory has a bitter, disagreeable taste, strongly marked in the fresh herb and
still ... fumitory was highly esteemed by the ancients as a blood purifier, ..."
3. The complete herbalist; or, The people their own physicians by the use of by Oliver Phelps Brown (1867)
"fumitory is an annual, glaucous plant, with a sub- erect, much branched, spreading,
... fumitory is found growing in cultivated soils in Europe and America, ..."
4. Landscape Gardening: Notes and Suggestions on Lawns and Lawn Planting by Samuel Parsons (1895)
"It grows four to ^^ **• eight inches high, bears numerous NOBLE fumitory.
pink flowers, and is decidedly attractive. Every one has heard of the common wild ..."
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