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Definition of Lambkill
1. Noun. North American dwarf shrub resembling mountain laurel but having narrower leaves and small red flowers; poisonous to young stock.
Definition of Lambkill
1. n. A small American ericaceous shrub (Kalmia angustifolia); -- called also calfkill, sheepkill, sheep laurel, etc. It is supposed to poison sheep and other animals that eat it at times when the snow is deep and they cannot find other food.
Definition of Lambkill
1. Noun. ''Kalmia angustifolia'', a toxic plant with small, deep pink flowers. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lambkill
1. an evergreen shrub [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lambkill
Literary usage of Lambkill
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau (1906)
"The leaf say just after the lambkill. I was wading through this white spruce ...
When I did, probably my eyes at first confounded it with the lambkill, ..."
2. Journal of Education by Nova Scotia Dept. of Education (1908)
"Some few are still in error about the lambkill as it was reported in bloom during
the last ... These persons are evidently reporting Rhodora as lambkill. ..."
3. How to Know the Wild Flowers: A Guide to the Names, Haunts, and Habits of by Frances Theodora Parsons, Marion Satterlee (1900)
"lambkill: Kalmia angustifolia. Heath Family. A shrub from one to three feet high.
Leaves. ... In his journal, June 13, 1852, he writes: " lambkill is out. ..."
4. A Guide to the Wild Flowers by Alice Lounsberry (1899)
"Such a wealth of witchery clusters about lambkill that we are very, very lenient
to its failings and almost prone to forgive them altogether. ..."
5. Southern Wild Flowers and Trees: Together with Shrubs, Vines and Various by Alice Lounsberry (1901)
"The laurels have a rather bad reputation in one way, especially lambkill, as they
are renowned for being poisonous to stock that eat of their young growth ..."
6. At the North of Bearcamp Water: Chronicles of a Stroller in New England from by Frank Bolles (1893)
"Between two great patches of lambkill and flowering diervilla was a level strip
of gravel. It bore printed on its face an interesting history. ..."
7. The MAGAZINE of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and (1857)
"These interchange with plats of low laurel, or lambkill, a name which I suppose
to be a corruption of Kalmia, its botanical appellation—(Kalmia, kal- lamia, ..."
8. A Year Among the Trees: Or, The Woods and By-ways of New England by Wilson Flagg (1881)
"THE LOW LAUREL, OR lambkill. The low Laurel, or small Kalmia, is plainly one of
nature's favorite productions; for, the wilder and ruder the situation, ..."
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