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Webster 1913 Edition


Eupatorium

Euˊpa-to′ri-um

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Noun.
[NL., fr.
Eupator
, king of Pontus, said to have used it as a medicine.]
(Bot.)
A genus of perennial, composite herbs including hemp agrimony, boneset, throughwort, etc.

Definition 2024


Eupatorium

Eupatorium

See also: eupatorium

Translingual

Eupatorium cannabinum

Wikispecies

Proper noun

Eupatorium n

  1. (sensu stricto) A taxonomic genus within the family Asteraceae bonesets, thoroughworts, and snakeroots.
  2. (sensu lato) A taxonomic genus within the family Asteraceae – all of Eupatorium sensu stricto and more than a dozen of what are now considered separate genera.

Hypernyms

Hyponyms

eupatorium

eupatorium

See also: Eupatorium

English

Noun

eupatorium (plural eupatoriums)

  1. (botany) Any of the genus Eupatorium of perennial herbs.