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Paris quadrifolia
(gcide) | Paris \Par"is\, n. [From Paris, the son of Priam.] (Bot.)
A plant common in Europe (Paris quadrifolia); herb Paris;
truelove. It has been used as a narcotic.
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Note: It much resembles the American genus Trillium, but
has usually four leaves and a tetramerous flower.
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Paris quadrifolia
(gcide) | leopard's bane \leop"ard's bane`\ (l[e^]p"[~e]rdz b[=a]n`) n.
(Bot.)
A name of several harmless plants, as Arnica montana
(Arnica acaulis syn. Doronicum acaule), {Senecio
Doronicum}, and Paris quadrifolia.
Syn: leopardbane, leopard's-bane.
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Paris quadrifolia
(gcide) | Herb \Herb\ ([~e]rb or h[~e]rb; 277), n. [OE. herbe, erbe, OF.
herbe, erbe, F. herbe, L. herba; perh. akin to Gr. forbh`
food, pasture, fe`rbein to feed.]
1. A plant whose stem does not become woody and permanent,
but dies, at least down to the ground, after flowering.
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Note: Annual herbs live but one season; biennial herbs flower
the second season, and then die; perennial herbs
produce new stems year after year.
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2. Grass; herbage.
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And flocks
Grazing the tender herb. --Milton.
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Herb bennet. (Bot.) See Bennet.
Herb Christopher (Bot.), an herb (Act[ae]a spicata),
whose root is used in nervous diseases; the baneberry. The
name is occasionally given to other plants, as the royal
fern, the wood betony, etc.
Herb Gerard (Bot.), the goutweed; -- so called in honor of
St. Gerard, who used to be invoked against the gout. --Dr.
Prior.
Herb grace, or Herb of grace. (Bot.) See Rue.
Herb Margaret (Bot.), the daisy. See Marguerite.
Herb Paris (Bot.), an Old World plant related to the
trillium (Paris quadrifolia), commonly reputed
poisonous.
Herb Robert (Bot.), a species of Geranium ({Geranium
Robertianum}.)
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paris quadrifolia
(wn) | Paris quadrifolia
n 1: European herb with yellow-green flowers resembling and
closely related to the trilliums; reputed to be poisonous
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