Definition of Stachys

1. Noun. Large genus of usually woolly or hairy herbs or subshrubs or shrubs; temperate eastern hemisphere; tropical Australasia.


Definition of Stachys

1. a labiate plant [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Stachys

St John's Night
St John's bread
St John's wort
St John's wort family
St Joseph
St Martin's Day
St Mary's
St Mihiel
St Patrick's Day
St Peter's wort
St Valentine's Day
Stabroek
Stace
Stacee
Stacey
Stachys palustris
Stachys sylvatica
Staci
Stacie
Stacy
Stader splint
Staderini's nucleus
Stael
Staffa
Staffie
Staffies
Stafford
Staffordshire
Staffordshire bullterrier

Literary usage of Stachys

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

1. The Lives of the Saints by Sabine Baring-Gould (1898)
"HE Apostle Paul, in his Epistle to the Romans, sends a greeting to stachys, a Christian residing there, giving him the title of " Beloved. ..."

2. Hortus Kewensis; Or, A Catalogue of the Plants Cultivated in the Royal by William Aiton (1811)
"Rough stachys. Introd. 1774. Fl. July and August. GH ^ . 18. ... White annual stachys. Nat. of Germany and France. Cult. 1713. Philosoph, transact, n. ..."

3. The United States: A Graphic History by Louis Morton Hacker, Rudolf Modley, George Rogers Taylor (1891)
"It is found in moist places in cultivated fields and orchards. It is not seriously troublesome. Nutlet of stachys bullata. ..."

4. The Microscopy of Vegetable Foods: With Special Reference to the Detection by Andrew Lincoln Winton, Josef Moeller, Kate Grace Barber Winton (1916)
"Under this name are known the tubers of an Asiatic plant (stachys ... Japanese Potato (stachys Sieboldii). Epidermis of tuber in surface view. (MOELLER. ..."

5. A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica by John Henry Clarke (1902)
"stachys Betonica. stachys betonica. Wood Betony. N. 0. Labiatae. Tincture of whole fresh plant. Clinical.—Cold. Diaphragm, paralysis of. Headache. Vertigo. ..."

6. A Botanical Materia Medica by Jonathan Stokes (1812)
"stachys palustris. L. afn. v. 67. S. palustris foetida. ,Chom. ... 327, Galeopsis angustifolia foetida. Geoffr. iii. 512. it 5. stachys ..."

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