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Definition of Galium aparine

1. Noun. Annual having the stem beset with curved prickles; North America and Europe and Asia.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Galium Aparine

Literary usage of Galium aparine

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

1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1886)
"(1) galium aparine, L.—Ger. 'Gerard marks this as obsolete, but it is in use in Oxfordshire at the present day.'— Hal. Wr. Glou. Cotswold Gloss. ..."

2. A Dictionary of English Plant-names by James Britten, Robert Holland (1886)
"(1) galium aparine, L.—Ger. 'Gerard marks this as obsolete, but it is in use in Oxfordshire at the present day.'— Hal. Wr. Glou. Cotswold Gloss. ..."

3. The Retrospect of Medicine by William Braithwaite (1854)
"On the Efficacy of galium aparine in Certain Forms of Cutaneous, ... He stated his belief that the galium aparine possessed remedial powers in the above ..."

4. The book of prescriptions: Containing More Than 3000 Prescriptions by Henry Beasley (1876)
"«galium aparine. The juice and decoction of common cleavers or goose-grass, Galium Aparine (Nat. ..."

5. Materia Medica and Special Therapeutics of the New Remedies by Edwin Moses Hale (1875)
"galium aparine. The members of the genus Galium are all called " divers" in this country, and "goose-grass" in Europe. This species is found in the woods—a ..."

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