Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name of a leguminous plant of southern Africa, Physolobium, with bladdery pods.
- noun In the United States, Vesicaria Shortii, a cruciferous plant with globose capsules.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a North American wild lobelia (
Lobelia inflata ) having small blue flowers and inflated capsules formerly used as an antispasmodic. - noun any of a number of annual or perennial herbs with inflated seed pods; some are placed in the genus Lesquerella.
- noun any of several plants of the genus Physaria having racemose yellow flowers and inflated pods.
- noun any of several hairy North American herbs having yellow racemose flowers and inflated pods.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun North American wild lobelia having small blue flowers and inflated capsules formerly used as an antispasmodic
- noun any of several plants of the genus Physaria having racemose yellow flowers and inflated pods
- noun annual or perennial herbs with inflated seed pods; some placed in genus Lesquerella
- noun any of several hairy North American herbs having yellow racemose flowers and inflated pods
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Its scientific name is Lobelia inflata, but it is also known as asthma weed, Indian tobacco, wild tobacco, gagroot, bladderpod, Lobelie, pukeweed and vomit wort according to WebMD.
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