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HEAL ALL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Common woodland herb of temperate North America having yellow nodding flowers and small round blue fruits
Synonyms:
Clintonia borealis; heal all; yellow clintonia
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("heal all" is a kind of...):
Clinton's lily; clintonia (any temperate liliaceous plant of the genus Clintonia having broad basal leaves and white or yellowish or purplish flowers followed by blue or black berries)
Holonyms ("heal all" is a member of...):
genus Clintonia (sometimes placed in family Convallariaceae)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Decumbent blue-flowered European perennial thought to possess healing properties; naturalized throughout North America
Synonyms:
heal all; Prunella vulgaris; self-heal
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("heal all" is a kind of...):
herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)
Holonyms ("heal all" is a member of...):
genus Prunella; Prunella (small genus of perennial mostly Eurasian having terminal spikes of small purplish or white flowers)
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