SPREADING 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:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("spreading 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)

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