Definition of Serratula tinctoria

1. Noun. European perennial whose serrate leaves yield a yellow dye.

Exact synonyms: Sawwort
Group relationships: Genus Serratula, Serratula
Generic synonyms: Herb, Herbaceous Plant

Lexicographical Neighbors of Serratula Tinctoria

Serpens
Serpens Caput
Serpens Cauda
Serpentarius
Serpentes
Serpentine
Serra
Serranidae
Serranus
Serranus subligarius
Serrasalmus
Serrate
Serratia marcescens
Serratia marcescens nuclease
Serratula
Serratula tinctoria
Serres
Serres' angle
Serres' glands
Sertoli
Sertoli's cell
Sertoli's columns
Server Side Include
Servetus
Servetus' circulation
Servia

Literary usage of Serratula tinctoria

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 (1850)
"Note on serratula tinctoria, Alsine stricta, and a Species of Woodsia. By DANIEL OLIVER, JUN., Esq. serratula tinctoria. Botanizing in Teesdale a while ago, ..."

2. The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine by Nathaniel Lloyd and Company (1890)
"Some of the small specimens—exceedingly glossy and beautiful in colour and markings—were reared from seed-heads of serratula tinctoria by Mr. Fletcher ..."

3. Elements of the Art of Dyeing: With a Description of the Art of Bleaching by by Claude-Louis Berthollet, Amédée B. Berthollet, Andrew Ure (1824)
"THE serratula tinctoria, saw-wort, is a plant which grows abundantly in woods and meadows. It affords, without mordants, a greenish-yellow colour, ..."

4. Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Or, Flower-garden Displayed by John Sims (1817)
"... in habit and general appearance, resembles very much SERRATULA tinctoria ; but is of considerably ..."

5. Hand-book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1864)
"... Caltha palustris, Genista tinctoria, Matricaria Chamo- milla, Serratula tinctoria, Solidago canadensis, Boletus hirsutus, and many species of lichen. ..."

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