Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
nellitory , 1.
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- noun herb that grows in crevices having long narrow leaves and small pink apetalous flowers
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In this context, Mabey's weeds - spiny restharrow, pellitory-of-the-wall or Martin's ramping fumitory - are playing a typically ambivalent role.
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chained_bear commented on the word pellitory-of-the-wall
"I opened my medicine box and rummaged through the boxes and jars. Agrimony, slippery elm, pellitory-of-the-wall ... ah, there it was. I pulled out the small blue glass jar Monsieur Forez had given me and unscrewed the lid."
—Diana Gabaldon, Dragonfly in Amber (NY: Delacorte Press, 1991), 415
January 2, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word pellitory-of-the-wall
"I opened my medicine box and rummaged through the boxes and jars. Agrimony, slippery elm, pellitory-of-the-wall ... ah, there it was. I pulled out the small blue glass jar Monsieur Forez had given me and unscrewed the lid."
—Diana Gabaldon, Dragonfly in Amber (NY: Delacorte Press, 1991), 415
January 2, 2010