Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A perennial herb (Adoxa moschatellina) native to northern regions of Eurasia and North America, having greenish-white, musk-scented flowers. Also called muskroot.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. See Adoxa.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A plant of the genus Adoxa (Adoxa moschatellina), the flowers of which are pale green, and have a faint musky smell. It is found in woods in all parts of Europe, and is called also
hollow root andmusk crowfoot .
Etymologies
- French moscatelle, from Italian moscatella, feminine diminutive of moscato, musk, from Late Latin muscus; see musk.
Examples
“An announcement boomed out from the four loud-speakers which clustered back to back like the florets of moschatel.”
“In the Caprifoliaceae we have small and regular greenish flowers, as in the moschatel (Adoxa); more conspicuous regular open flowers without honey, as in the elder (Sambucus); and tubular flowers increasing in length and irregularity, till in some, like our common honeysuckle, they are adapted for fertilisation by moths only, with abundant honey and delicious perfume to attract them.”
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Words meaning or invoking the different aspects of pale.
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