Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several plants of the genus Apocynum, having milky juice and bell-shaped white or pink flowers.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
dog's-bane .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A small genus of perennial herbaceous plants, with poisonous milky juice, bearing slender pods pods in pairs.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany Any species of genus Apocynum, eponymous of the dogbane family
Apocynaceae
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of several poisonous perennial plants of the genus Apocynum having acrid milky juice and bell-shaped white or pink flowers and a very bitter root
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Examples
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An even stronger rope can be fashioned from a dried plant called dogbane, once the stick-like stalks have been crushed and the flaky covering removed.
Primitive Instincts: Where modern man can learn to live like his ancestors Tom Bartlett 2010
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The dogbane, which is perfectly adapted to the butterfly, and dependent upon it for help in producing fertile seed, ruthlessly destroys all poachers that are not big or strong enough to jerk away from its vise-like grasp.
Wild Flowers Worth Knowing Neltje Blanchan 1891
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Others, such as dogbane, black currant and large sage, continue to experience smaller yields each year.
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When Jan pulls out an entire roll of dogbane cord he made himself, the class "oohs" its approval.
Primitive Instincts: Where modern man can learn to live like his ancestors Tom Bartlett 2010
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When Jan pulls out an entire roll of dogbane cord he made himself, the class "oohs" its approval.
Primitive Instincts: Where modern man can learn to live like his ancestors Tom Bartlett 2010
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An even stronger rope can be fashioned from a dried plant called dogbane, once the stick-like stalks have been crushed and the flaky covering removed.
Primitive Instincts: Where modern man can learn to live like his ancestors Tom Bartlett 2010
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An even stronger rope can be fashioned from a dried plant called dogbane, once the stick-like stalks have been crushed and the flaky covering removed.
Primitive Instincts: Where modern man can learn to live like his ancestors Tom Bartlett 2010
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When Jan pulls out an entire roll of dogbane cord he made himself, the class "oohs" its approval.
Primitive Instincts: Where modern man can learn to live like his ancestors Tom Bartlett 2010
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An even stronger rope can be fashioned from a dried plant called dogbane, once the stick-like stalks have been crushed and the flaky covering removed.
Primitive Instincts: Where modern man can learn to live like his ancestors Tom Bartlett 2010
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When Jan pulls out an entire roll of dogbane cord he made himself, the class "oohs" its approval.
Primitive Instincts: Where modern man can learn to live like his ancestors Tom Bartlett 2010
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