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Pellitory   Listen
noun
Pellitory  n.  (Bot.)
(a)
A composite plant (Anacyclus Pyrethrum) of the Mediterranean region, having finely divided leaves and whitish flowers. The root is the officinal pellitory, and is used as an irritant and sialogogue. Called also bertram, and pellitory of Spain.
(b)
The feverfew (Chrysanthemum Parthenium); so called because it resembles the above.






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"Pellitory" Quotes from Famous Books



... (2): "YARDEHOK Mallow, some species. They are all more or less mucilaginous and emollient. If Yarde Virga; then it is Marshmallow, or Malva Sylvestris; if yarde erde, earth; then the rotundifolia. —254 (3): PARITORY is Pellitory of the wall, parietaria. Wall pellitory abounds in nitrate of potass. There are two other pellitories: 'P. of Spain'—this is Pyrethrum, which the Spanish corrupted into pelitre, and we corrupted pelitre ...
— Early English Meals and Manners • Various



Words linked to "Pellitory" :   herbaceous plant, pellitory-of-Spain, Anacyclus pyrethrum, herb, Parietaria, genus Anacyclus, pellitory-of-the-wall, Parietaria difussa, wall pellitory, Anacyclus, genus Parietaria



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