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Betony   Listen
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Betony  n.  (pl. betonies)  (Bot.) A plant of the genus Betonica (Linn.). Note: The purple or wood betony (Betonica officinalis, Linn.) is common in Europe, being formerly used in medicine, and (according to Loudon) in dyeing wool a yellow color.






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"Betony" Quotes from Famous Books



... he picked a large bunch of the wayside flowers as an offering to Phoebe—purple knapweed and betony, the plumy dead-pink heads of hemp-agrimony, and tufts of strong yellow fleabane, all squeezed together in his hot little hand. The air seemed alive with butterflies and moths, white and brown and red, and clouds of the "blue skippers" ...
— Secret Bread • F. Tennyson Jesse



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