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Definition of Tetterwort
1. Noun. Perennial woodland native of North America having a red root and red sap and bearing a solitary lobed leaf and white flower in early spring and having acrid emetic properties; rootstock used as a stimulant and expectorant.
Group relationships: Genus Sanguinaria, Sanguinaria
Generic synonyms: Herb, Herbaceous Plant
Definition of Tetterwort
1. n. A plant used as a remedy for tetter, -- in England the calendine, in America the bloodroot.
Definition of Tetterwort
1. Noun. A plant used as a remedy for tetter: in England the calendine, in America the bloodroot. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Tetterwort
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Tetterwort
Literary usage of Tetterwort
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Therapeutic Gazette (1921)
"... ium, or tetterwort. HANZLIK, in the Journal of the American Medical Association
of November 13, 1920, in summarizing his article says : 1. ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"... and in affections of the lungs to promote expectoration and induce easier
breathing) ; blood root, coon root, yellow puccoon, tetterwort, tumeric, etc. ..."
3. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"Summer. Called also greater celandine, to distinguish it from Ficaria, the small
or lesser celandine. Swallow-wort. tetterwort. ..."
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