Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of North American labiate plants of the Atlantic States.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun small genus of perennial erect or spreading aromatic herbs; United States
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You can try taking tablets of stone root, or collinsonia, two times a day.
Purpleocity.net 2009
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In a plant of collinsonia, a branch of which is now before me, the two yellow stamens are about three-eighths of an inch high, and diverge from each other at an angle of about fifteen degrees, the purple style is half an inch high, and in some flowers is now applied to the stamen on the right hand, and in others to that of the left; and will, I suppose, change place to-morrow in those, where the anthers have not yet effused their powder.
Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin Samuel Butler 1868
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