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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A North American perennial plant (Scutellaria lateriflora) having one-sided clusters of two-lipped blue or white flowers.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Bot.) An American mint (Scutellaria lateriflora) that yields a resinous exudate used esp. formerly as an antispasmodic.
  2. n. (Bot.) an American herb (Scetellaria lateriflora) formerly prescribed as a cure for hydrophobia.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. an American mint that yields a resinous exudate used especially formerly as an antispasmodic

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  1. So called from its use as an antispasmodic. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  1. blue pimpernel
  1. blue skullcap

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Other words for ‘mad-dog skullcap’

  1. mad-dog weed

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  1. herbaceous plant
  1. Herb

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  1. madweed
  1. scutellaria

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