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Sanguinaria
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1.
(Bot.)
A genus of plants of the Poppy family.
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Sanguinaria Canadensis
, or bloodroot, is the only species. It has a perennial rootstock, which sends up a few roundish lobed leaves and solitary white blossoms in early spring. See Bloodroot
. 2.
The rootstock of the bloodroot, used in medicine as an emetic, etc.
Definition 2024
Sanguinaria
Sanguinaria
See also: sanguinaria and sanguinária
Translingual
Proper noun
Sanguinaria f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Papaveraceae – the bloodroots.
Hypernyms
- (genus): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, eudicots - clades; Ranunculales - order; Papaveraceae - family; Papaveroideae - subfamily; Chelidonieae - tribe
See also
- See Wikipedia for species
sanguinaria
sanguinaria
See also: Sanguinaria and sanguinária
English
Noun
sanguinaria (plural sanguinarias)
- (botany) Any of the genus Sanguinaria, or bloodroots.
- 1871, Edward Everett Hale, Old and New (volume 3, page 108)
- […] the violets, houstonias, hepaticas, and sanguinarias, which take so kindly to home cultivation.
- 1871, Edward Everett Hale, Old and New (volume 3, page 108)
- The rootstock of the bloodroot, used in medicine as an emetic, etc.
Latin
Adjective
sanguināria
- nominative feminine singular of sanguinārius
- nominative neuter plural of sanguinārius
- accusative neuter plural of sanguinārius
- vocative feminine singular of sanguinārius
- nominative neuter plural of sanguinārius
sanguināriā
- ablative feminine singular of sanguinārius
References
- SANGUINARIA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)