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Definition of Saw palmetto

1. Noun. Small hardy clump-forming spiny palm of southern United States.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Saw Palmetto

Literary usage of Saw palmetto

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

1. Bulletin of the University of Wisconsin by University of Wisconsin (1910)
"The Pharmacology of saw palmetto. Proc. New Jersey Ph. Assoc., 25, p. ... Sherman, PL and Briggs, CH saw palmetto. Pharm. Arch. 2, p. 101; Proc. ..."

2. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1894)
"saw palmetto (SABAL SERRULATA.) CC SHERRARD, PH.C. The chief inducement to begin a study of the composition of the saw palmetto berry has been due to the ..."

3. A Manual of Materia Medica and Pharmacology: Comprising All Organic and by David Marvel Reynolds Culbreth (1917)
"saw palmetto Berries, saw palmetto, Palmetto (Scrub), Dwarf Palmetto, ... saw palmetto: fruit which is externally reddish-brown, some- and seed. what ..."

4. A Practical treatise on materia medica and therapeutics by John Vietch Shoemaker (1908)
"Saw-palmetto. The partially dried fruit of Sere- noa serrulata ... The saw-palmetto grows along the sea-coast from South Carolina to Florida, ..."

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