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Definition of Three-seeded mercury
1. Noun. Weedy herb of eastern North America.
Group relationships: Acalypha, Genus Acalypha
Generic synonyms: Bush, Shrub
Lexicographical Neighbors of Three-seeded Mercury
Literary usage of Three-seeded mercury
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Botany of the United States North of Virginia: Comprising Descriptions of by Lewis Caleb Beck (1848)
"three-seeded mercury. (A Greek name for the nettle, which this plant somewhat
resembles. ... Carolinian three-seeded mercury. 5. EUPHORBIA. Linn.—Spurge. ..."
2. The Vascular Flora of Pennsylvania: Annotated Checklist and Atlas by Ann Fowler Rhoads, William M. Klein (1993)
"three-seeded mercury Herbaceous annual Wooded slopes, roadsides, fields and waste
ground. Acalypha virginica L. three-seeded mercury Herbaceous annual Dry ..."
3. The Vascular Flora of Pennsylvania: Annotated Checklist and Atlas by Ann Fowler Rhoads, William M. Klein (1993)
"three-seeded mercury Herbaceous annual Wooded slopes, roadsides, fields and waste
ground. Acalypha virginica L. three-seeded mercury Herbaceous annual Dry ..."
4. Flora of Pennsylvania by Thomas Conrad Porter (1903)
"HORNBEAM THREE SEEDED MERCURY. (Man. p. 588 ; IF /. 2297.) NJ to Kans., Fla.
and Мех.— Pennsylvania : BUCKS, Morrisville. 2. Acalypha Virginica L. VIRGINIA ..."
5. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"Native or virgin mercury, the pure metal found in the form of globules in cavities
of the ores of this metal. — Three - seeded mercury, a plant of the genus ..."
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