Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name applied to various plants, as the bloody dock, Rumex sanguineus, a species of dock with the stem and veins of the leaves of a blood-red color;
- noun the dwarf elder, Sambucus Ebulus;
- noun in the United States, the Hieracium venosum, the leaves of which are veined with red.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A plant,
Rumex sanguineus , or bloody-veined dock. The name is applied also to bloodroot (Sanguinaria Canadensis ), and to an extensive order of plants (Hæmodoraceæ ), the roots of many species of which contain a red coloring matter useful in dyeing.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The plant
bloodroot , Sanguinaria canadensis. - noun Rumex sanguineus, the bloody-veined
dock . - noun Any of the Haemodoraceae, a family of
flowering plants some of whoseroots contain a reddye .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of various plants of the family Haemodoraceae; roots contain a deep red coloring matter
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Examples
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In one are seven towels, in another seven sponges: when the choir sings the Benedictus of Lauds, small brushes of box or yew but generally of bloodwort, arranged in the form of a diadem, are distributed to the canons.
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I thought it very unlikely, for instance, that bloodwort would be effective in making warts grow on a rival's nose, and I strongly doubted whether wood betony was useful in transforming toads into pigeons.
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One of the meadows I crossed was almost sheeted with the exquisite little blue-white china-looking blossoms of the Euphrasia, eyebright; tufts of violets were in bloom along the roadside, and the woods are full of bloodwort, wild anemones, speedwell, and a diminutive bright yellow star, which belongs to a species of wild strawberry here.
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The feet were constantly caught and entangled in the long grass, that was parched in the scorching sun; the eyes were dazzled on all sides by the glaring metallic glitter on the young reddish leaves of the trees; on all sides were the variegated blue clusters of vetch, the golden cups of bloodwort, and the half-lilac, half-yellow blossoms of the heart's-ease.
A Sportsman's Sketches Works of Ivan Turgenev, Volume I Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev 1850
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The feet were constantly caught and entangled in the long grass, that was parched in the scorching sun; the eyes were dazzled on all sides by the glaring metallic glitter on the young reddish leaves of the trees; on all sides were the variegated blue clusters of vetch, the golden cups of bloodwort, and the half-lilac, half-yellow blossoms of the heart’s-ease.
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