Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various plants of the genus Sanicula of the parsley family, having compound umbels of small yellow, purple, or greenish flowers and fruit with hooked bristles, formerly used as an astringent.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Sanicula Marilandica. Also called
black snakeroot . - noun A plant of the genus Sanicula.
- noun A plant of some other genus. See the phrases.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) Any plant of the umbelliferous genus Sanicula, reputed to have healing powers.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany Any of several
plants , of thegenus Sanicula , havingpalmate compound leaves and smallflowers arranged inumbels ; thesnakeroot .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a plant of the genus Sanicula having palmately compound leaves and unisexual flowers in panicled umbels followed by bristly fruit; reputed to have healing powers
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Cadfael bathed away the encrusted exudations and cleaned the gash with a lotion of water betony and sanicle.
The Hermit of Eyton Forest Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1987
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Cadfael bathed away the encrusted exudations and cleaned the gash with a lotion of water betony and sanicle.
The Hermit of Eyton Forest Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1987
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They cleaned the broken wound of its exudations with a lotion of woundwort and sanicle, and dressed it with a paste of the same herbs with betony and the chickweed wintergreen, covered it with clean linen, and swathed the patient's wasted trunk with bandages to keep the dressing in place.
An Excellent Mystery Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1985
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They cleaned the broken wound of its exudations with a lotion of woundwort and sanicle, and dressed it with a paste of the same herbs with betony and the chickweed wintergreen, covered it with clean linen, and swathed the patient's wasted trunk with bandages to keep the dressing in place.
An Excellent Mystery Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1985
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Down that path of rosy mint and astringent fennel the laughter is like Gerard's sanicle – "a thing to make whole and sound all inward hurts and outward wounds."
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The slender mitella, or fringe-cup, or false sanicle – one does not like a false name for a flower – hangs its tiny white cups at intervals on a tall, slender, two-leaved stalk; a pretty, unpretending little thing, which scatters its black seeds very early in the season.
Rural Hours 1887
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The northern character also appears in the Galium caripense, the Valeriana scandens, and a sanicle not unlike the S. marilandica.
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The northern character also appears in the Galium caripense, the Valeriana scandens, and a sanicle not unlike the S. marilandica.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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