Definitions

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  • noun poisonous herbs: water dropworts
  • noun wheatears

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Examples

  • Resembling parsley, this plant which is called Corky-Fruited Water Dropwort, botanical name oenanthe pimpinelloides or Kazayagi in Turkish, was used to make a delicious sounding Lentil Soup with Corky-Fruited Water Dropwort.

    Archive 2006-04-01 Kalyn Denny 2006

  • Resembling parsley, this plant which is called Corky-Fruited Water Dropwort, botanical name oenanthe pimpinelloides or Kazayagi in Turkish, was used to make a delicious sounding Lentil Soup with Corky-Fruited Water Dropwort.

    Weekend Herb Blogging #30 Recap Still Discovering New Plants! Kalyn Denny 2006

  • Land birds are fewer and also typical for the area, they include: Canada goose Branta Canadensis, wheatear Oenanthe oenanthe, snow bunting Plectrophenax nivalis, Lapland bunting, Calcarius lapponicus, redpoll Carduelis rostrata, and raven Corvus corax.

    Ilulissat Icefjord, Denmark-Greenland 2008

  • At the rise of this star the bird called by some oenanthe disappears, and reappears when it is setting: thus keeping clear at one time of extreme cold, and at another time of extreme heat.

    The History of Animals 2002

  • The Water Dropwort -- Hemlock (_oenanthe crocata_) is an umbelliferous plant, frequent in our marshes and ditches.

    Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

  • (Saxicola rubicola), the whin-chat (S. rubetra), and the wheat-ear (S. oenanthe) are more or less divergent forms of one type, with modifications in the shape of the wing, feet, and bill adapting them to slightly different modes of life.

    Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868

  • Researchers had known the northern wheatear Oenanthe oenanthe songbird in the world, with breeding grounds extending from Alaska and extreme northwestern Canada across northeastern Canada and into Europe and Asia.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2012

  • THE yellow breasted chat (oenanthe, Cat. motacilla trochilus, Linn.) is in many instances a very singular bird; the variableness and mimickry of his notes or speech, imitating various creatures; and a surprising faculty of uttering a coarse, hollow sounding noise in their throats or crops, which at times seems to be at a great distance, though uttered by a bird very near, and vice versa.

    Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws; Containing An Account of the Soil and Natural Productions of Those Regions, Together with Observations on the Manners of the Indians. 1823

  • As the material thus necessary to life seems to be more easily acquired from air than from water, the subaquatic leaves of this plant and of sisymbrium, oenanthe, ranunculus aquatilis, water crow-foot, and some others, are cut into fine divisions to increase the surface, whilst those above water are undivided; see Botanic

    Canto I 1803

  • As the material thus necessary to life seems to be more easily acquired from air than from water, the subaquatic leaves of this plant and of sisymbrium, oenanthe, ranunculus aquatilis, water crow-foot, and some others, are cut into fine divisions to increase the surface, whilst those above water are undivided; see Botanic Garden,

    The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes Erasmus Darwin 1766

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