Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The Inula Conyza, so called from its property of keeping off fleas.
- noun The Plantago Psyllium, from the shape of its seeds. Also
fleaseed .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) An herb used in medicine (
Plantago Psyllium ), named from the shape of its seeds.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of various unrelated
plants that are supposed to kill, or ward offleas - noun A
herb , Plantago psyllium, whose seeds are supposed to resemble fleas
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun plantain of Mediterranean regions whose seeds swell and become gelatinous when moist and are used as a mild laxative
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She put divers herbs in it, herbs yielding coloured juices such as safflower and alkanet, and soapwort and fleawort to give consistency or 'body' to the lye; she put in alum and blue vitriol (or sulphate of copper), and she put in blood.
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