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Definition of Hypericum perforatum
1. Noun. Yellow-flowered perennial common in fields and waste places but a weed in rangelands.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hypericum Perforatum
Literary usage of Hypericum perforatum
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Phytologist: A Popular Botanical Miscellany edited by George Luxford, Edward Newman (1843)
"Our specimen is much more branched than hypericum perforatum generally is, the
branches being nearly erect; the leaves are very narrow, and their edges ..."
2. Physiological Materia Medica, Containing All that is Known of the by William H. Burt (1881)
"... jealousy, and unhappy love. Amelioration.—On stooping; during the day; and
the cough from rising and sitting up. hypericum perforatum. St. John's Wort. ..."
3. Specific Diagnosis and Specific Medication by John William Fyfe, John Milton Scudder (1909)
"hypericum perforatum is sedative, diuretic and astringent. Indications.—Catarrhal
conditions of the urinary passages; suppression of urine; chronic urinary ..."
4. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"hypericum perforatum L. Sp. Pl. 785. 1753. Perennial, herbaceous from a woody
base, 1°-2° high, much branched. Stems erect, with numerous barren shoots at ..."
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