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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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7 words match “LOBELIA”

LOBELIA n.
A genus of plants, including a great number of species. Lobelia inflata, or Indian tobacco, is an annual plant of North America, whose leaves contain a poisonous white viscid juice, of an acrid taste. It has often been used in medicine as an emetic, expectorant, etc. L. cardinalis is the cardinal flower, remarkable for…
LOBELIACEOUS a.
Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants of which the genus Lobelia is the type.
BUCK'S-HORN n.
A plant with leaves branched somewhat like a buck's horn (Plantago Coronopus); also, Lobelia coronopifolia.
INDIAN n.
ather occurring late in autumn. See under Summer. -- Indian tobacco (Bot.), a species of Lobelia. See Lobelia. -- Indian turnip (Bot.), an American plant of the genus Arisæma. A. triphyllum has a wrinkled farinaceous root resembling a small turnip, but with a very acrid juice. See Jack in the Pulpit, and Wake-robin.…
LOBELIN n.
A yellowish green resin from Lobelia, used as an emetic and diaphoretic.
LOBELINE n.
A poisonous narcotic alkaloid extracted from the leaves of Indian tobacco (Lobelia inflata) as a yellow oil, having a tobaccolike taste and odor.
MONOGAMIA n.
A Linnæan order of plants, having solitary flowers with united anthers, as in the genus Lobelia.