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CULVERS ROOT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A tall perennial herb having spikes of small white or purple flowers; common in eastern North America
Synonyms:
Culver's physic; Culver's root; Culvers physic; Culvers root; Veronicastrum virginicum; whorlywort
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Culvers root" is a kind of...):
asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)
Holonyms ("Culvers root" is a member of...):
family Scrophulariaceae; figwort family; foxglove family; Scrophulariaceae (a family of dicotyledonous plants of the order Polemoniales; includes figwort and snapdragon and foxglove and toadflax and speedwell and mullein; in some classifications placed in the order Scrophulariales)
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