Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
alexanders , 1.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) An umbelliferous plant, the common Alexanders of Western Europe (
Smyrnium Olusatrum ).
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- noun An
umbelliferous plant , the commonalexanders of Western Europe (Smyrnium olusatrum).
Etymologies
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Examples
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_Smyrnum olusatrum_, and the stinking _Geranium robertianum_, mingle with the sweets of _Calendula_, _Narcissus_, and _Jonquil_; not to mention the _Orchis_ tribe, which flourishes in profusion.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. Various
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[313] The black pot-herb -- so called from the dark colour of its fruit -- is an umbelliferous plant, (_Smyrnium olusatrum_) or Alexanders, often found in the vicinity of abbeys, and probably therefore held in former repute by the Monks.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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_Smyrnium olusatrum_, which has been found near Baldock and Pirton; and
Hertfordshire Herbert Winckworth Tompkins 1901
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