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Definition of Stachys
1. Noun. Large genus of usually woolly or hairy herbs or subshrubs or shrubs; temperate eastern hemisphere; tropical Australasia.
Generic synonyms: Asterid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Family Labiatae, Family Lamiaceae, Labiatae, Lamiaceae, Mint Family
Member holonyms: Dead Nettle, Hedge Nettle, Stachys Sylvatica, Hedge Nettle, Stachys Palustris
Definition of Stachys
1. a labiate plant [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stachys
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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