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COMMON DOGBANE
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
North American perennial having pinkish flowers in loose cymes; used in folk medicine for pain or inflammation in joints
Synonyms:
Apocynum androsaemifolium; common dogbane; rheumatism weed; spreading dogbane
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("common dogbane" is a kind of...):
dogbane (any of several poisonous perennial plants of the genus Apocynum having acrid milky juice and bell-shaped white or pink flowers and a very bitter root)