Found 2 items, similar to Euphorbia Helioscopia.
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Definition: Euphorbia helioscopia
Euphorbia helioscopia
n : not unattractive European weed whose flowers turn toward the
sun [syn:
sun spurge,
wartweed,
wartwort,
devil's milk
]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Euphorbia Helioscopia
Turnsole
\Turn"sole`\, n. [F. tournesol, It. tornasole; tornare
to turn (LL. tornare) + sole the sun, L. sol. See
Turn,
Solar, a., and cf.
Heliotrope.] [Written also
turnsol.]
1. (Bot.)
(a) A plant of the genus
Heliotropium; heliotrope; -- so
named because its flowers are supposed to turn toward
the sun.
(b) The sunflower.
(c) A kind of spurge (
Euphorbia Helioscopia).
(d) The euphorbiaceous plant
Chrozophora tinctoria.
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2. (Chem.)
(a) Litmus. [Obs.]
(b) A purple dye obtained from the plant turnsole. See
def. 1
(d) .
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Wart
\Wart\, n. [OE. werte, AS. wearte; akin to D. wrat, G.
warze, OHG. warza, Icel. varta, Sw. v[*a]rta, Dan. vorte;
perh. orig., a growth, and akin to E. wort; or cf. L. verruca
wart.]
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1. (Med.) A small, usually hard, tumor on the skin formed by
enlargement of its vascular papill[ae], and thickening of
the epidermis which covers them.
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2. An excrescence or protuberance more or less resembling a
true wart; specifically (Bot.), a glandular excrescence or
hardened protuberance on plants.
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Fig wart,
Moist wart (Med.), a soft, bright red, pointed
or tufted tumor found about the genitals, often massed
into groups of large size. It is a variety of condyloma.
Called also
pointed wart,
venereal wart. --L. A.
Duhring.
Wart cress (Bot.), the swine's cress. See under
Swine.
Wart snake (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of East
Indian colubrine snakes of the genus
Acrochordus, having
the body covered with wartlike tubercles or spinose
scales, and lacking cephalic plates and ventral scutes.
Wart spurge (Bot.), a kind of wartwort (
Euphorbia Helioscopia
).
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Wartwort
\Wart"wort`\, n. (Bot.)
A name given to several plants because they were thought to
be a cure for warts, as a kind of spurge (
Euphorbia Helioscopia
), and the nipplewort (
Lampsana communis).
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