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HEAL ALL

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Common woodland herb of temperate North America having yellow nodding flowers and small round blue fruits

Synonyms:

Clintonia borealis; heal all; yellow clintonia

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("heal all" is a kind of...):

Clinton's lily; clintonia (any temperate liliaceous plant of the genus Clintonia having broad basal leaves and white or yellowish or purplish flowers followed by blue or black berries)

Holonyms ("heal all" is a member of...):

genus Clintonia (sometimes placed in family Convallariaceae)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Decumbent blue-flowered European perennial thought to possess healing properties; naturalized throughout North America

Synonyms:

heal all; Prunella vulgaris; self-heal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("heal all" is a kind of...):

herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)

Holonyms ("heal all" is a member of...):

genus Prunella; Prunella (small genus of perennial mostly Eurasian having terminal spikes of small purplish or white flowers)

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