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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.) A genus of labiate plants (Leonurus); -- so called from a fancied resemblance of its flower spikes to the tuft of a lion's tail. Leonurus Cardiaca is the common motherwort.

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  • noun Leonotis leonurus, a broadleaf evergreen shrub with medicinal and psychoactive properties.

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