Found 2 items, similar to Celandine.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: celandine
celandine
n 1: North American annual plant with usually yellow or orange
flowers; grows chiefly on wet rather acid soil [syn:
jewelweed,
lady's earrings,
orange balsam,
touch-me-not,
Impatiens capensis
]
2: perennial herb with branched woody stock and bright yellow
flowers [syn:
greater celandine,
swallowwort,
swallow wort
,
Chelidonium majus]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Celandine
Celandine
\Cel"an*dine\ (s[e^]l"[a^]n*d[imac]n), n. [OE.
celidoine, OF. celidoine, F. ch['e]lidoine, fr. L. chelidonia
(sc. herba), fr. chelidonius pertaining to the swallow, Gr.
chelido`nios, fr. chelidw`n the swallow, akin to L. hirundo a
swallow.] (Bot.)
A perennial herbaceous plant (
Chelidonium majus) of the
poppy family, with yellow flowers. It is used as a medicine
in jaundice, etc., and its acrid saffron-colored juice is
used to cure warts and the itch; -- called also
greater celandine
and
swallowwort.
[1913 Webster]
Lasser celandine, the pilewort (
Ranunculus Ficaria).
[1913 Webster]