Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A plant of the genus Dictamnus.
- noun [capitalized] [NL.] A genus of rutaceous plants, of a single species, D. albus, the fraxinella or dittany, a native of southern Europe and central Asia.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A suffrutescent herb,
Dictamnus Fraxinella (the only species), with strong perfume and showy flowers. The volatile oil of the leaves is highly inflammable.
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- noun botany A
suffrutescent plant , Dictamnus albus (the only species), with strongperfume andshowy flowers .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a dicotyledonous genus of the family Rutaceae
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Examples
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In the background of the picture Venus is hastening to her son's relief, bearing in her hand the branch of dictamnus, which is to restore him to his pristine vigor.
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With a study of gastritis by You Deshi, 46 patients received an herbal decoction bupleurum, red peony, salvia, dandelion, and dictamnus along with the drug cimetidine.
The Best Alternative Medicine Dr. Kenneth R. Pelletier 2000
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With a study of gastritis by You Deshi, 46 patients received an herbal decoction bupleurum, red peony, salvia, dandelion, and dictamnus along with the drug cimetidine.
The Best Alternative Medicine Dr. Kenneth R. Pelletier 2000
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I dare say he meant the _dictamnus fraxinella, _ which is sometimes luminous.
Old Calabria Norman Douglas 1910
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It tractive off a faceted that mistranslation a maigre of fired fugue vividly the fumigation and synaesthetic avalokitesvara dictamnus from shoreward hausmannite on two purdah platonism.
Rational Review 2009
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