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greater celandine

noun

  1. a Eurasian papaveraceous plant, Chelidonium majus, with yellow flowers and deeply divided leaves Also calledswallowwort Compare lesser celandine
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

This means adding plants so that they read in the landscape with others, and removing some seedlings to bring definition to a prodigious colony of, say, greater celandine or columbines.

The organization pointed to 12 supplement ingredients in particular that it said could be dangerous: aconite, bitter orange, chaparral, colloidal silver, coltsfoot, comfrey, country mallow, germanium, greater celandine, kava, lobelia, and yohimbe.

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The oldest known, and at the same time one of the most accurately described mutations is the origin of the cut-leaved variety of the greater celandine or Chelidonium majus.

The juice of the greater celandine will adorn you with the most beautiful eruptions and tumors.

When Beck led me through the garden recently, the last of the bloodroots was flowering, and the Virginia bluebells, trilliums and greater celandine blanketed the woodland floor in bold sweeps of yellows, blues and whites.

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