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Large genus of chiefly tropical herbs having heads of white or purplish flowers
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eupatorium
Word definitions for eupatorium in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Eupatorium \Eu`pa*to"ri*um\, n. [NL., fr. Eupator, king of Pontus, said to have used it as a medicine.] (Bot.) A genus of perennial, composite herbs including hemp agrimony, boneset, throughwort, etc.
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Eupatorium is a genus of flowering plants in the aster family, Asteraceae , containing from 36 to 60 species depending on the classification system. Most are herbaceous perennial plants growing to 0.5–3 m tall. A few are shrubs . The genus is native to ...
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context botany English) Any of the genus ''Eupatorium'' of perennial herbs.
Usage examples of eupatorium.
The azaleas succeeded to the anemones, the orchis and trillium followed, then the yellow gerardias and the feathery purple pogonias, and finally the growing gleam of the golden-rods along the wood-side and the red umbels of the tall eupatoriums in the meadow announced the close of summer.
The eupatoriums, with their purple crowns, stood like young trees, with an undergrowth of aster and blue spikes of lobelia, tangled in a golden mesh of dodder.
Many of the earlier works allude to this species as a diuretic, and therefore of use in dropsy, but this is an error, this property being possessed by Eupatorium purpureum, the purple-flowered Boneset, or Gravel Root.
The Hemp Agrimony, Eupatorium Cannabinum, belongs to the great Composite order of plants.
It is sometimes combined with Mitchella repens and Eupatoria aromatica.