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Webster 1913 Edition


Lion's tail

Li′on’s tailˊ

(lī′ŭnz tālˊ)
Noun.
(Bot.)
A genus of labiate plants (
Leonurus
); – so called from a fancied resemblance of its flower spikes to the tuft of a lion’s tail.
Leonurus Cardiaca
is the common
motherwort
.