Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Dogbane, a genus of perennial herbs, type of the natural order Apocynaceæ (which see), and including three species, of which two, A. androsœmifolium and A. cannabinum, are North American.
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- noun perennial herbs with small pink or white flowers
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Examples
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Pensylvania and New Jersey, they made ropes of this apocynum, which the Swedes bought, and employed them as bridles, and for nets.
Prehistoric Textile Art of Eastern United States Thirteenth Annual Report of the Beaurau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1891-1892, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1896 pages 3-46 William Henry Holmes 1889
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From Glenora there is first a terrace two hundred feet above the river covered mostly with bushes, yellow apocynum on the open spaces, together with carpets of dwarf manzanita, bunch-grass, and a few of the compositae, galiums, etc.
Travels in Alaska John Muir 1876
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