Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The sheep-laurel, Kalmia angustifolia.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A small American ericaceous shrub (
Kalmia angustifolia ), resembling mountain laurel but having narrower leaves and small red flowers; -- called alsocalfkill ,sheepkill ,sheep laurel , etc. It is supposed to poison young sheep and other animals that eat it at times when the snow is deep and they cannot find other food.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Kalmia angustifolia, a
toxic plant with small, deeppink flowers.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun North American dwarf shrub resembling mountain laurel but having narrower leaves and small red flowers; poisonous to young stock
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Botany cannot go farther than tell me the names of the shrubs which grow there — the high blueberry, panicled andromeda, lambkill, azalea, and rhodora — all standing in the quaking sphagnum.
Walking 1969
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Botany cannot go farther than tell me the names of the shrubs which grow there — the high blueberry, panicled andromeda, lambkill, azalea, and rhodora — all standing in the quaking sphagnum.
Walking 1862
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Through what some would consider rough woods and bleak pasture land, in a little sheep-track, crooked and sometimes steep, over her hung like a white cloud the wild thorn tree, large golddusted cymes of viburnums, rose-blooming lambkill, and other sorts, suggested all she knew, and more than she knew, of the Gardens of Princes.
Margaret 1851
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