Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The elecampane, Inula Helenium.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) Elecampane.
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- noun The plant
elecampane .
Etymologies
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scab + wort
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Examples
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And beyond, standing on the reddish benches, among the long grasses and the November scabwort, his little friend, whom
Ramuntcho Pierre Loti 1886
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-- He threw it at random, this time, anywhere, on the granite of the old benches flowered with belated scabwort --
Ramuntcho Pierre Loti 1886
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On the two sides are extended, for the spectators, long benches -- made of the red granite of the neighboring mountain and, at this moment, all overgrown with autumn scabwort.
Ramuntcho Pierre Loti 1886
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