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Definition of Liatris
1. Noun. Genus of perennial North American herbs with aromatic usually cormous roots.
Generic synonyms: Asterid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Aster Family, Asteraceae, Compositae, Family Asteraceae, Family Compositae
Member holonyms: Blazing Star, Button Snakeroot, Gay-feather, Gayfeather, Snakeroot
Lexicographical Neighbors of Liatris
Literary usage of Liatris
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Edward Pollock Anschutz (1917)
"Want to try it. How do you give it?" He could not get it. "Get me some," was his
order. "There is the article, be sure to get the right thing, liatris! ..."
2. Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse by Edward Step (1897)
"liatris. Florets all tubular, long, with free slender extremities, ... Principal
species : liatris pycnostachya (1732), with pale purple heads in dense ..."
3. Journal of Materia Medica (1869)
"liatris. BV IJM GOSS, AM, MD There are several species of this plant, and many
medicinal properties have been ascribed to them, as diuretic, astringent, ..."
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