Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The astringent rhizome of Potentilla Tormentilla, a plant belonging to the rose family and native to Europe and Asia.
- noun A former genus of plants, now reduced to a section of Potentilla, including those species which have the parts of the flowers in fours. The tormentil belongs to this section.
- noun A plant of this subgenus; tormentil.
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Examples
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Daniel, and sank with an unexpressed relief into the lair which was a little hollow in the moor, where heather grew thickly on the sides, but permitted pale violets and golden tormentilla to creep about the grassy bottom.
Moor Fires 1914
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Witepsk, huckleberries and the root of tormentilla.
Napoleon's Campaign in Russia Anno 1812 Achilles Rose 1877
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The tormentilla gleams in showers along the mountain turf; her delicate crosslets are separate, though constellate, as the rubied daisy.
Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859
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-- Alexander; angelica; asparagus; beet; betony, bittersweet; bluebottle; borage; coltsfoot; elecampane; eringo; fennel; fern; galingale; horse-radish; marshmallow; nettle (red); orris; parsley; scabious; sorrel; strawberry; succory; thyme (wild); tormentilla.
The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened Kenelm Digby 1634
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Potentilla _tormentilla_ (indicating that the plant is that which was formerly known by the latter name), Exacum _Candollii_ (from the fact that
A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive John Stuart Mill 1839
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