Definition of Symphytum

1. Noun. Comfrey.

Exact synonyms: Genus Symphytum
Generic synonyms: Plant Genus
Group relationships: Borage Family, Boraginaceae, Family Boraginaceae
Member holonyms: Comfrey, Cumfrey

Lexicographical Neighbors of Symphytum

Sylvilagus
Sylvilagus aquaticus
Sylvilagus floridanus
Sylvilagus palustris
Symbion pandora
Symbionese
Symonds
Symone
Symons
Symphalangus
Symphalangus syndactylus
Symphoricarpos
Symphoricarpos alba
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus
Symphyla
Symphytum
Symphytum officinale
Symplocaceae
Symplocarpus
Symplocarpus foetidus
Symplocus
Symplocus paniculata
Symplocus tinctoria
Synagrops
Synagrops bellus
Synanceja
Synanceja verrucosa
Synapsida
Synaptomys
Synaptomys borealis

Literary usage of Symphytum

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

1. Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Or, Flower-garden Displayed by John Sims (1817)
"We have given a figure of symphytum tauricum (No. 1787) by comparing which with the present, the difference will at once be seen. This is a taller plant, ..."

2. English Botany; Or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with Their Essential by James Edward Smith, James Sowerby (1801)
"Seeds 4, naked. SPEC. CHAR. Leaves ovato-lanceolate, decurrent. SYK. symphytum officinale. Linn. Sp. Pl . 195. Sm. FL Brit. a 18. Hudf. 81. Witb. 230. Hull. ..."

3. New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Edward Pollock Anschutz (1917)
"Three doses of symphytum effected a perfect cure. The lad became more robust, and has since had better general health than ever before. ..."

4. New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Edward Pollock Anschutz (1917)
"Three doses of symphytum effected a perfect cure. The lad became more robust, and has since had better general health than ever before. ..."

5. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel, Isaac Bayley Balfour (1905)
"In symphytum (Fig. 391) the sporogenous tissue is much greater in amount. It proceeds here from a cell-layer which in transverse section consists of only a ..."

6. Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Or, Flower-garden Displayed by John Sims (1817)
"We have given a figure of symphytum tauricum (No. 1787) by comparing which with the present, the difference will at once be seen. This is a taller plant, ..."

7. English Botany; Or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with Their Essential by James Edward Smith, James Sowerby (1801)
"Seeds 4, naked. SPEC. CHAR. Leaves ovato-lanceolate, decurrent. SYK. symphytum officinale. Linn. Sp. Pl . 195. Sm. FL Brit. a 18. Hudf. 81. Witb. 230. Hull. ..."

8. New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Edward Pollock Anschutz (1917)
"Three doses of symphytum effected a perfect cure. The lad became more robust, and has since had better general health than ever before. ..."

9. New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Edward Pollock Anschutz (1917)
"Three doses of symphytum effected a perfect cure. The lad became more robust, and has since had better general health than ever before. ..."

10. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel, Isaac Bayley Balfour (1905)
"In symphytum (Fig. 391) the sporogenous tissue is much greater in amount. It proceeds here from a cell-layer which in transverse section consists of only a ..."

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